Rochelle Wigley has a PhD in Geology from the University of Cape Town and is project director for the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program in Ocean Mapping at the Center for...

A project awarded by the Malta Council of Science and Technology (MCST) through the Space Research fund call 2022 and sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) will allow researchers...

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has released a new fine-scale digital map featuring the seabed geology of offshore Anglesey. The island (in Welsh known as Ynys Môn) follows the Bristol Channel as...

Researchers from the Bureau of Economic Geology have spent the summer in northwestern Greenland conducting research using an airborne Lidar system. The project – Airborne Lidar surveys to quantify Greenland...

Is Iceland the tip of a vast, sunken continent? A new theory could revolutionize geological thinking. Academics believe that they have identified a remarkable geological secret: a sunken continent hidden...

Imaging and geo-engineering specialist Argeo entered into an agreement for AUV work for Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) on the Bjørnafjorden E36 crossing. The project, valued at 8.5 million NOK,...

The Crown Estate recently commissioned new detailed survey work to enhance knowledge of the quality and distribution of marine sand and gravel resources in the UK and to support the...

Although navigational charts play an essential role in guaranteeing safe passage through our oceans, the information they contain also has many other uses beyond safe journeying from point A to...

Satellite technology has been used to chart shallow areas of the Cook Islands’ seafloor in never-before-seen detail by scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and...

Alex Bastos is Professor in Marine Geology at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil since 2004. Received his PhD from the University of Southampton/National Oceanography Centre, UK, in 2003. His...