The oceans and seas that surround Europe offer new opportunities for growth and jobs to meet the Europe 2020 goals. To best tap this potential, people need to know more about what is happening under the sea. The European Commission is proposing to create a digital seabed map of European waters by 2020 by collecting [...]
September 19, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the news,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Research & Development |
Read More »
Scientists from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and partner agencies will depart Key West Thursday aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster to map fish spawning sites between Key West and the Dry Tortugas. Data collected on this 10-day research cruise will enhance scientific understanding of fish spawning locations, as well as fish movements in and [...]
July 25, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the news,
Americas,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Research & Development |
Read More »
NOC scientist, Dr Henry Ruhl, is leading an expedition to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, some 300 miles southwest of Lands End. He will be looking at how the shape of deep ocean floor and climate influence deep sea ecology, and he intends to do this by making a very large photographic map of the seafloor [...]
July 9, 2012 | Posted in
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Operations,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Research & Development,
Top Stories |
Read More »
Axial seamount, 480 kilometers (300 miles) off the coast of northern Oregon, is one of the best-studied underwater volcanoes in the world. For 30 years, researchers have explored this volcano using submersibles and monitored its activity using pressure sensors, tilt meters, temperature probes, and seismometers (earthquake detectors). Now MBARI researchers have created the world’s most [...]
June 26, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the news,
Americas,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Operations,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Research & Development |
Read More »
James Cook University’s Robin Beaman has produced a new map of Australia’s Coral Sea region that details the reefs, mountains, and canyons that exist under the sea. A marine geologist at JCU’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dr Beaman’s map covers an area of about one million square kilometres of the Coral Sea Conservation [...]
February 21, 2012 | Posted in
Asia Pacific,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
News by topic,
NEWS category,
Operations,
Press releases,
Regional news,
Research & Development,
Top Stories |
Read More »
University College Cork (UCC) scientists have produced the first detailed charts of part of Ireland’s offshore bedrock geology, using… LORNA SIGGINS (irishtimes) Source: irishtimes , December 12, 2011; Image: Infomar
Two hundred years on from the first recorded landing, researchers have compiled the first ever high-resolution map of the underwater seabed and reefs around Rockall. On September 8, 1811, a Royal Navy officer with a small crew landed on the isolated North Atlantic islet and scaled the 19 metre high summit. From this initial [...]
NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space observations of ocean surface salinity variations — a key component of Earth’s [...]
State and federal agencies have created the first map of underwater vegetation of the waters of North Carolina and parts of Virginia… Sam Walker (outerbanksvoice) Source: outerbanksvoice, September 16, 2011;
Dr Andy Steven from CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship says the glider’s deployment is part of a research program to monitor the extent of the flood plume into Moreton Bay and assess its effects. “This disastrous flood also provides us with a rare opportunity to understand how our marine ecosystems respond to massive inputs [...]
