MG34A:
Seabed Mapping: A Global Challenge II Posters


Session ID#: 28353

Session Description:
The final frontier for Earth exploration lies beneath its oceans. With less than 10 % of the worlds seabed mapped in high resolution, the challenge to uncover geological landscapes and map global benthic habitats continues. Increasing focus on the raw economic value of the world’s oceans threatens the health of underexplored ecosystems. Multidisciplinary studies of the marine area are crucial to understanding and ultimately helping to sustain the health and biological diversity of our oceans, while supporting the management of marine energy and raw material resources. Marine policy and maritime spatial planning are guided worldwide by regional and national seabed mapping programmes (SMP), as well as by international scientific collaborations. By evolving with advancements in the latest technology and data analytics, SMP assesses marine geohazards, update admiralty charts and create geological maps that facilitate marine engineering infrastructures and safe shipping. This session will provide a forum for geoscientists and representatives of international ocean mapping initiatives to share their expertise in the science and technology of seabed mapping, review seabed mapping standards and products, and discuss future challenges. Speakers are invited to address topics on the following: integration of interdisciplinary science; SMP strategies; alignment with government priorities and interaction with stakeholders.
Primary Chair:  Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland
Co-chairs:  Daniel S Brothers, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Carol Cotterill, British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom and Hayley C Cawthra, University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Cape Town, South Africa
Moderators:  Daniel S Brothers, US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland and Hayley C Cawthra, University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Cape Town, South Africa
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Daniel S Brothers, US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Carol Cotterill, ECORD Science Operator, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3094 Instruments and techniques [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • CD - Coastal Dynamics
  • ED - Education, Outreach and Policy
  • OD - Ocean Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Seabed Mapping Data Translated into Standardised Marine Minerals Maps for Europe (308300)
Charise McKeon, Geological Survey Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland and Grainne O'Shea, Geological Survey Ireland, Ireland
Geomorphologic Characterization of Recent and Pre-Existing Slump Features at Campeche Escarpment (309057)
Skye Pelliccia and Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States
Navigational Adjustment to Optimize Multibeam Bathymetry of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge “Popping Rocks” Site (309265)
James Ryan Hawsey, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States and Samuel A Soule, WHOI, MA, United States
Coral Distributions Along Ewing Bank Determined From Multibeam Sonar Data (312671)
Niall C. Slowey, Yasuto Shigei, Nelson Andres Pazmino and Troy Holcombe, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, TX, United States
Substrate Classification of Puerto Rico’s Northern Continental Slope Submarine Canyons (314047)
Caroline Bradley, College of Charleston, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Margate City, NJ, United States and Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States
"Coastal Zone Mapping using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (317789)
Ronan OToole, Geological Survey Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Glacio-karst Limestone and Jointing of Inishmore, Ireland (319725)
Robert Joseph Kozich III, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States and Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, SC, United States
Systematic mapping of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System for offshore hazard assessments, southeastern Alaska and western British Columbia (327349)
Daniel S Brothers1, Vaughn Barrie2, Brian D Andrews3, Alicia F Balster-Gee4, James E Conrad5, Peter Dartnell6, Amy E East7, H. Gary Greene8, Peter J Haeussler9, Patrick E Hart4, Jared Kluesner6, Nathaniel C Miller10, Uri S Ten Brink11, Maureen A L Walton5, Janet Tilden Watt6 and Charles R Worley12, (1)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (7)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (8)Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (9)U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, United States, (10)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (11)U.S. Geological Survey Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, WI, United States, (12)USGS, Woods Hole, CA, United States

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