The distribution and behavior of whales are often closely tied to seafloor topography, which influences nutrient upwelling and food availability. By simultaneously studying whale movements and ocean ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue ...

New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

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Due to the costs and the technology needed to explore at vast depths, only a few countries are equipped to scan the ocean floor. These countries include the United States, Japan, New Zealand ...

Their location at the bottom of the ocean makes these muddy deposits notoriously ... They reconstructed ancient seafloor topography using past sea level changes interpreted via glacial isostatic ...

Among those on the chopping block are the Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES), the Alaska Ocean Observing System, Alaska Sea Grant, the Alaska Center for ...

Don’t expect that percentage to change anytime soon, either. The study’s authors at the Ocean Discovery League in Rhode Island estimate that even if 1,000 remote and piloted deep sea ...

was conceived to give a more comprehensive picture of global fresh-water and ocean topography. Launched in December 2022, it combines a new satellite architecture, formed of a 10-metre-long mast ...

The Alaska Ocean Observing System is a NOAA program that provides boaters, fishermen and subsistence hunters with information about things like waves, currents and water temperatures to improve ...