OS33D:
New Perspectives on Seafloor Morphology from High-Resolution Ocean Mapping III

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
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 Conveners:  Paul A Elmore, Naval Research Lab, Marine Geosciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Co-conveners:  Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden and Jenifer Foulkes, Google, Inc., Google Ocean Program, Mountain View, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paul A Elmore, Naval Research Lab Stennis Space Center, Marine Geosciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Swath sonar mapping of Earth's submarine plate boundaries
Suzanne M Carbotte, Vicki Lynn Ferrini, Mollie Celnick, Frank Oliver Nitsche and William B F Ryan, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
1:55 PM
 
Insights on Arctic Sea Ice Processes from New Seafloor and Coastline Mapping
Son V Nghiem1, Dorothy K Hall2, Ignatius G Rigor3, Pablo Clemente-Colon4, Peggy Li1 and Gregory Neumann1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States, (4)National Ice Center, Washington, DC, United States
2:10 PM
 
Processing of AUV Sidescan Sonar Images for Enhancement and Classification
Chie Honsho, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, Akira Asada, Underwater Technology Collaborative Research Center, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Tamaki Ura, Center for Socio-Robotic Synthesis, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan and Kangsoo Kim, National Maritime Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2:25 PM
 
Bluefin 9M AUV Survey of the Hubbard Glacier Morainal Bank: Proof-of-Concept Study of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Investigations Proximal to a Tidewater Glacier
John A Goff, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Sean P S Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Daniel E Lawson, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and William O'Halloran, Bluefin Robotics, Inc., Quincy, MA, United States
2:40 PM
 
High-resolution Geophysical Mapping of Submarine Glacial Landforms
Martin Jakobsson1, Julian A. Dowdeswell2, Miquel Canals3, Brian Jeremy Todd4, Evelyn K Dowdeswell2, Kelly A Hogan5 and Larry A Mayer6, (1)Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Universitat de Barcelona, GRC Geociencies Marines, Barcelona, Spain, (4)Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (5)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
2:55 PM
 
Fram-2014/2015: A 400 Day Investigation of the Arctic's Oldest Sediments over the Alpha Ridge with a Research Hovercraft
John K Hall1 and Yngve Kristoffersen1,2, (1)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - NERSC, Bergen, Norway
3:10 PM
 
Mapping the Surficial Geology of the Arctic Ocean
David Cole Mosher, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Catalina Gebhardt, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Larry A Mayer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
3:25 PM
 
New insights into the past glaciation of the northeast Greenland continental shelf
Jan Erik Arndt1, Wilfried Jokat1, Boris Dorschel1, Dhira Matahelemual1, Julian A. Dowdeswell2 and Jeffrey Evans3, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Loughborough, Loughborough, United Kingdom
 
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