OS34A:
New Perspectives on Seafloor Morphology from High-Resolution Ocean Mapping IV

Session ID#: 4640

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jenifer Foulkes, Google, Inc., Google Ocean Program, Mountain View, CA, United States and Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Primary Convener:  Paul A Elmore, Naval Research Lab, Marine Geosciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-conveners:  Jenifer Foulkes, Google, Inc., Google Ocean Program, Mountain View, CA, United States and Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
OSPA Liaison:  Paul A Elmore, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Marine Geosciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
4562 Topographic/bathymetric interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS34A-01
A New Burst of Seafloor Mapping and Discovery Driven By Advances in Satellite Altimetry (Invited) (5563)
Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Kara J Matthews, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OS34A-02
What a Difference a Swath Makes! (Invited) (5276)
Larry A Mayer and James V Gardner, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
OS34A-03
A new global bathymetry map at 15 arcsecond resolution for resolving seafloor fabric: SRTM15_PLUS (13869)
Christopher Jackson Olson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Joseph J Becker, NRL, STENNIS SPACE CENTER, MS, United States and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OS34A-04
What's New in the Ocean in Google Earth and Maps (30409)
Jenifer Austin, Google, Mountain View, CA, United States and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
OS34A-05
Quantitative characterization of abyssal seafloor with transit multibeam backscatter data (15679)
Robert A Pockalny, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Vicki Lynn Ferrini, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
OS34A-06
New R/V Falkor Multibeam Data from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (19376)
John R Smith Jr1, Christopher Kelley2, Brian Boston3, Belinda Dechnik4, Shellie Linn Habel5, Lauren Harrison6, Jason Leonard7, Frances Lichowski8, Daniel Luers8, Joyce E Miller1, Rachel Orange1, Madhavi Anne Patterson4, Brian Shiro9,10, Jeremy Taylor8, Harrison Togia1, Jonathan Patrick Tree1, Joshua Tucker8, Daniel Wagner11, Jody Webster12 and Nicky Wright13, (1)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (4)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (5)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Climate Resilience Collaborative, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, United States, (6)EOAS University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, United States, (8)NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, United States, (10)NOAA Honolulu, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (11)NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, via Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Charleston, United States, (12)University of Sydney, Geocoastal Research Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (13)The University of Sydney, EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
OS34A-07
High-Resolution Acoustic Imaging in the Agadir-Canyon Region, NW-Africa: Morphology, Processes and Geohazards (12453)
Sebastian Krastel1, Russell B. Wynn2, Peter Feldens3, Daniel Unverricht3, Veit Huehnerbach4, Christopher Stevenson5, Silke Glogowski4 and Anke Schuerer3, (1)Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany, (2)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)Inst fuer Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)The University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
OS34A-08
Large-scale fine-grained sediment waves over the Gulf of Valencia continental slope (northwestern Mediterranean Sea) (13048)
Marta Ribo1, Pere Puig1, Araceli Muñoz2, Claudio Lo Iacono1,3, David Van Rooij4, Albert Palanques1, Juan Acosta5, Jorge Guillén1 and Maria Gómez-Ballesteros5, (1)ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Tragsa-SGP, Madrid, Spain, (3)National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Marine Geoscience, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Gent, Belgium, (5)Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Madrid, Spain
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