Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Seafloor mapping surveys will be taking place ...

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 ...

Woolpert and Saildrone deploy autonomous Saildrone Surveyor USV to map 13,000 sq. nautical miles of seafloor around Mariana Islands for NOAA.

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 ...

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 ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the seafloor to date, according to a new study in Science. The work could help ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...