Three new sets of maps detail the offshore bathymetry, habitats, geology and submarine environment of the seafloor off the coast of San Francisco, Drakes Bay and Tomales Point, USA. Critical...

An international group of scientists headed by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, Germany) opened a new window into the the Arctic Ocean's past...

Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor have completed a 12-day expedition off the coast of Southern California to survey the biodiversity of deep sea areas rich in...

In this article, we examine the evolving landscape of bathymetry with insights from Anders Ekelund, vice president of airborne bathymetric Lidar at Hexagon Geosystems. Beyond mapping seagrass, Ekelund unveils Lidar’s...

Three products in an ongoing series have been released by the U.S. Geological Survey: a map set for the area offshore of Carpinteria, California, USA, a catalogue of data layers...

The recent financial crisis has affected geographic and economic areas in different ways. Spain has been strongly affected with decreasing private investment and stalling public funding. For small companies, the...

Although the marine resources in Norwegian offshore waters are quite intensively exploited by primarily the petroleum industry and fisheries, the knowledge about seafloor habitats is scarce. Any destructive consequences from...

An interdisciplinary project led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) geologist Jeff McGuire, an expert in global earthquake seismology and geodesy, and John Collins, director of WHOI's Ocean Bottom Seismometer...

Fugro recently introduced its next-generation coastal mapping system, the Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System (RAMMS 2.0), at the Hydro 2023 conference in Genoa, Italy. RAMMS 2.0, the world’s only airborne...

To explore the origins of supervolcanoes on the seafloor, scientists drilled into a large, 145 million-year-old volcanic mountain chain lying underwater off the coast of Japan. These have been blamed...