Learn more about why understanding how life works in the deep sea is crucial to understanding the entire planet, and that’s never been more important.

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

However, even after extensive measurement efforts, the acquired data was often inaccurate or incomplete, which forced navigators and surveyors to estimate the seafloor’s bathymetry until remote ...

Scanning a whole area of the seafloor, then, will give you a depth — or bathymetry — map. In the same way that a topography map shows elevation changes, a bathymetry map shows changes in depth.

New research on a field of pockmarks—large, circular depressions on the seafloor—offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions ...

With the second version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO v2), an international group of researchers recently presented the best and most detailed seafloor map of ...

The long-term carbon cycle has a lot of moving parts, all functioning on different time scales. One of those parts is seafloor bathymetry — the mean depth and shape of the ocean floor. This is, in ...

Geophysicist David Sandwell, one of the world’s leading experts on seafloor bathymetry, has to go back to 1978’s Seasat to find another satellite project that has engaged so many ocean researchers at ...

One of those parts is seafloor bathymetry — the mean depth and shape of the ocean floor. This is, in turn, controlled by the relative positions of the continent and the oceans, sea level ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years. At present, ship-mounted ...

The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...