OS14B:
Seafloor Mapping: Progress, Discoveries, Innovations, and Collaborations I

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Session ID#: 35221

Session Description:
The world’s oceans are largely unexplored, with less than 10% of the entire seafloor mapped at high resolution. The need for more and better mapping of the seafloor, with particular focus on bathymetry, geology and habitat, is necessary to identify marine resources, assess geologic hazards, characterize biodiverse and vulnerable environments, create baselines for monitoring change, and generate knowledge to inform policy. Recent seafloor mapping progress has been achieved through regional and national seabed mapping programs and international collaboration. These efforts are leading to significant geologic insight while enabling the development of international standards and products that will contribute to seamless global coverage. This session will (1) review progress on global seafloor mapping; (2) focus on recent geologic discoveries; (3) present the most recent developments in methods, standards and products; and (4) provide a forum to share expertise and both enable and promote further collaborations
Primary Convener:  Kim Picard, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conveners:  Paul A Elmore, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland and Samuel Y Johnson, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Chairs:  Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland and Kim Picard, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Samuel Y Johnson, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1219 Gravity anomalies and Earth structure [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
3002 Continental shelf and slope processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3022 Marine sediments: processes and transport [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

What Will Science Gain From Mapping the World Ocean Floor? (Invited) (238121)
Martin Jakobsson, Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Where to Go Next? Identifying Target Areas in the North Atlantic for Future Seafloor Mapping Initiatives (245612)
Anne-Cathrin Woelfl1, Jennifer Jencks2, Gordon Johnston3, Jesse D Varner4 and Colin William Devey1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, United States, (3)Venture Geomatics Limited, Banstead, United Kingdom, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States
INFOMAR, Ireland’s National Seabed Mapping Programme; Sharing Valuable Insights. (252155)
Maria T Judge1, Fergal McGrath2, Sean Cullen3, Koen Verbruggen3 and INFOMAR Team, (1)Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland, (2)INFOMAR, Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, (3)Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
MAREANO: The national seafloor mapping programme of Norway - providing new knowledge for making informed management decisions (287959)
Lilja Rún Bjarnadóttir1, Terje Thorsnes1 and The MAREANO Geology Team, (1)MAREANO, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
The California Seafloor Mapping Program — Providing science and geospatial data for California’s State Waters (241445)
Samuel Y Johnson1, Guy R Cochrane1, Nadine E Golden1, Peter Dartnell2, Stephen R. Hartwell1, Susan A Cochran1 and Janet Tilden Watt3, (1)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States
Using High-Resolution Swath Mapping Data and Other Underway Geophysical Measurements Collected during Transit Cruises of RV Isabu to Map Deep Sea Floor of the Pacific and Indian Oceans (250795)
Gi-Hoon Hong1, Sang-Mook Lee2, Dug-Jin Kim3, Youn-Ho Lee1 and Seung-Sep Kim4, (1)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)KIOST Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Ship Obervation, Ansan, South Korea, (4)Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Shallow Investigations of the Deep Seafloor: Quantitative Morphology in the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean (243886)
Mor Kanari1,2, Tomer Ketter1, Gideon Tibor1 and Uri Schattner2, (1)Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Haifa, Israel, (2)University of Haifa, The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Haifa, Israel
Industry Contributions to Seafloor Mapping: Building Partnerships for Collecting, Sharing, and Compiling Data (290348)
Kelley Brumley1, Garrett Alan Mitchell2, David Millar2, Edward J Saade3 and Jamshid Jim Gharib3, (1)Fugro Consultants, Inc. Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Fugro USA Marine, Inc, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Fugro, Houston, TX, United States

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