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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 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:  Jenifer Foulkes, Google, Inc., Google Ocean Program, Mountain View, CA, United States and Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
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:

4:00 PM
 
A New Burst of Seafloor Mapping and Discovery Driven By Advances in Satellite Altimetry
Dietmar Müller1, Kara J Matthews1 and David T Sandwell2, (1)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
4:15 PM
 
What a Difference a Swath Makes!
Larry A Mayer and James V Gardner, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
4:30 PM
 
A new global bathymetry map at 15 arcsecond resolution for resolving seafloor fabric: SRTM15_PLUS
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
4:45 PM
 
What's New in the Ocean in Google Earth and Maps
Jenifer Austin, Google, Mountain View, CA, United States and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
5:00 PM
 
Quantitative characterization of abyssal seafloor with transit multibeam backscatter data
Robert A Pockalny, Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Vicki Lynn Ferrini, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palisades, NY, United States
5:15 PM
 
New R/V Falkor Multibeam Data from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
John R Smith Jr1, Christopher Kelley1, Brian Boston1, Belinda Dechnik2, Shellie Habel1, Lauren Harrison3, Jason Leonard4, Frances Lichowski4, Daniel Luers4, Joyce E Miller1, Rachel Orange1, Madhavi Anne Patterson2, Brian Shiro1,5, Jeremy Taylor4, Harrison Togia1, Jonathan Patrick Tree1, Joshua Tucker4, Daniel Wagner4, Jody Webster2 and Nicky Wright2, (1)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (3)EOAS University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)NOAA Honolulu, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
5:30 PM
 
High-Resolution Acoustic Imaging in the Agadir-Canyon Region, NW-Africa: Morphology, Processes and Geohazards
Sebastian Krastel1, Russell B. Wynn2, Peter Feldens1, Daniel Unverricht1, Veit Huehnerbach3, Christopher Stevenson4, Silke Glogowski3 and Anke Schuerer1, (1)Inst fuer Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany, (2)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)The University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
5:45 PM
 
Large-scale fine-grained sediment waves over the Gulf of Valencia continental slope (northwestern Mediterranean Sea)
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)Tragsatec S.A., Madrid, Spain, (3)National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Marine Geoscience, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)Ghent University, Geology & Soil Science, Ghent, Belgium, (5)Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Madrid, Spain
 
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