OS33D:
Global Developments in Seafloor Mapping: Gaining a Greater Insight into Earth Systems IV Posters


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Session ID#: 57507

Session Description:
Necessity to map the Earth's ocean floor has never been so urgent as a result of unprecedented anthropogenic pressures. Human activity and growth in the global marine economy necessitate a deepening of our marine knowledge. High-resolution seafloor mapping of oceans and coastlines alike provide baseline information, that in turn support scientific research, evidence-based policy decisions, and sustainable resource management. 

To facilitate the definitive production of a World Ocean floor map, a new inclusive global initiative was established. The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project encourages developments in technology, data sharing, crowd-sourcing, and the acquisition of ancillary acoustic data. Continued seafloor mapping by national and regional programs, hydrographic offices, scientific researchers and commercial agencies illustrate encouraging progress.

This session aims to bring the academic, commercial and government seafloor mapping communities together. We encourage papers on mapping programs, collaborative initiatives, geological discoveries, technological and scientific advances, acquisition standards and processing methodologies.

Primary Convener:  Nicole Raineault, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States
Conveners:  Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland, Geoffroy Lamarche, NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand and Kim Picard, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Nicole Raineault, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States
Chairs:  Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland and Kim Picard, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
OSPA Liaison:  Lindsay Gee, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States

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

1910 Data assimilation, integration and fusion [INFORMATICS]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3094 Instruments and techniques [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3099 General or miscellaneous [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Surveying Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Communities on an Unexplored, Enigmatic Seamount Trail North of the Central Hawaiian Ridge (415581)
Thomas F. Hourigan, NOAA Habitat Conservation, Silver Spring, MD, United States; NOAA Fisheries, Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program, Silver Spring, United States and Christopher Kelley, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, Honolulu, HI, United States
1-cm Resolution Seafloor Surveys Combining Wide Swath Lidar, Multibeam Sonar, Stereo Cameras, and INS on an Articulating ROV Toolsled (455539)
David W Caress1, Hans J Thomas1, Eric J Martin2, J. Andrew Hamilton1, Michael Risi2, Larry Bird1, Richard Henthorn1, Giancarlo Troni3, Brett Hobson2, Charles K Paull1, James Barry4, Katherine L Maier1, Monica Wolfson Schwehr1, Stephen Rock5, Erik Trauschke1, Ethan Slattery1, Craig Dawe1, Michael Burczynski1 and D J Osborne1, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (2)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, United States, (3)Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (4)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Research, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
GEBCO-NF Alumni Team technology development - Round 2 of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE (445063)
Rochelle Wigley1, Yulia Zarayskaya2, Evgenia Bazhenova3, Karolina Zwolak4, Jaya A Roperez1, Masanao Sumiyoshi5, Sattiabaruth Seeboruth6, Ivan Ryzhov7, Tomer Ketter1, Mohamed Moawed Abou-Mahmoud8, Aileen Bohan9, Andres Fitzcarrald10, Hadar Sade11, Neil Tinmouth12, Alison Proctor13, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow14, Timothy Kearns15 and Benjamin Simpson16, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ocean Floor Geomorphology and Tectonics, Geological Institute, Moscow, Russia, (3)NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)K2sea, Gdynia, Poland, (5)Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Hydrographic Unit of the Ministry of Housing and Lands Mauritius, Port Louis, Mauritius, (7)Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, (8)National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Alexandria, Egypt, (9)Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, (10)Peruvian Navy, Lima, Peru, (11)Yam-Yafo Ltd., Rishon Lezion, Israel, (12)NF/GEBCO Training Alumni, Cape Town, South Africa, (13)Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc., Burnaby, Canada, (14)Puente Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (15)Numurus, Seattle, United States, (16)Hushcraft Ltd, Mersea, United Kingdom
Longitudinal Reef Monitoring using Co-Located Interferometric Multibeam Sonar and Optical 3D Reconstruction aboard an L3 OceanServer Iver3 AUV (423408)
Hunter C. Brown, L3Harris, Fall River, MA, United States
My Data, Your Noise: Tube Worm Mats and Implications for Seafloor Survey Best Practices (465974)
Juliet W Kinney, Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States and Roger D Flood, Stony Brook Univ, Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Characterization of Five Geologic Zones within the Northern Mariana Subduction Region (386439)
Sophie Alpert, College of Charleston, Geology & Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States, Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, United States and Erin K Beutel, College of Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States
Geomorphological Analysis of Complex Sediment Wave Bedforms off the Southeast Coast of Ireland (399420)
Alexandra Elizabeth Dawson, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States and Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, United States
Unexpected Bathymetry and Habitat Features in Estuarine Environments of Georgia, USA (468423)
Clark R Alexander Jr, Michael Robinson and Claudia Venherm, University of Georgia, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Savannah, GA, United States
Shallow Water Seafloor and Habitat Mapping in Cape Cod National Seashore: A Post-Hurricane Sandy Study (458213)
Mark Borrelli, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Theresa L Smith, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA, United States and Bryan Legare, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, United States
Efficient monitoring of the Seafloor Morphological Change using Post-Sandy Lidar in South Carolina (463057)
Tinah Martin, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Juliet W Kinney, Earth Resources Technology Inc., Silver Spring, MD, United States, Michael N Bogonko, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Rochelle Wigley, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Durham, NH, United States
Nearshore Bathymetry of Atolls in the South China Sea Estimated by Satellite Multispectral Data (432081)
Pei-Yun Tsai1, Kuo-Hsin Tseng1, Chih-Yuan Huang2, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi3 and Tatsuyuki Sagawa4, (1)National Central University, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, (3)RESTEC Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

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