Located off the coast of Ecuador, Paramount seamount is among the kinds of ocean floor features that certain ocean-observing ...

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We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT ...

A new technology that will help predict hurricane impacts is coming to St. Pete! A sailboat will map the ocean floor in our ...

Employees who were fired last month from the agency that oversees federal fisheries in Alaska were reinstated on Monday ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.

It's a sailboat that will map the ocean-floor in our area over the next month. "They are really going to contribute to a lot of great science. A lot of improvements to warning about storm surge ...

Its goal? To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade. This goal is extremely ambitious. There are technical challenges, financial challenges, and political challenges. Five years to ...