A new scientific model is giving researchers an unprecedented, global look at the activities of clams, worms, and other invertebrate animals that burrow at the bottom of the ocean. And what they find ...

Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from... Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

Benthic habitat mapping and seafloor classification are pivotal to advancing our understanding of marine ecosystems and informing sustainable management practices. These processes, which rely heavily ...

A Pacific seafloor mapping project has located a mountain “twice as high as the Burj Khalifa” in Dubai, which is the world’s tallest building, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute. The ...

The deep-sea remains one of the most unexplored regions on Earth, due in large part to the immense challenges posed by its depth and vastness. Yet, the recent advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on Earth’s gravity field, and it is a particularly useful tool. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship ...

ILLAHEE — The process of locating disposed tires laid at the bottom of Puget Sound used to involve divers scouring the sea floor. Now a state-of-the-art technology being tested in Kitsap to make it ...

Seafloor mapping by the Schmidt Ocean Institute has revealed an underwater mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building, off Guatemala. Schmidt Ocean Institute ...