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GeoHab 2010 Conference in Wellington, New Zealand |
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Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00 |
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The annual GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) Conference was held this year in Wellington, New Zealand, and hosted by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). With the theme 'Characterisation, Quantification and Diversity of Extreme Habitats', delegates from around the world presented posters and seminars highlighting the latest seabed mapping research.
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Collaboration with Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 21:50 |
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Prof David Sandwell at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) is one of the world’s foremost experts in mapping the seafloor using satellite gravity data. He and his colleagues have developed the Global and Estimated Seafloor Topography dataset (Satellite Geodesy) and also the SRTM30_Plus dataset, which was used as the terrain model in the Google Earth: Ocean Layer . Prof Sandwell agreed to collaborate on Project 3DGBR to help develop a new high-resolution depth model for the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea (internal link here).
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IODP Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition |
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 23:18 |
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The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is the world's largest scientific offshore drilling program and will commence the Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes (GBREC) Expedition in February 2010 from Townsville, Australia. The ECORD Science Operator (ESO) has the task of implementing the expedition, which will use the 94 metre RV Greatship Maya and an international scientific crew to drill shallow boreholes along the Great Barrier Reef shelf edge.
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Deep Down Under expedition to the Coral Sea |
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:00 |
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The Deep Down Under research expedition finished in Cairns, Australia after a successful voyage to the Queensland Plateau in the Coral Sea. The expedition aimed to investigate relict fauna, or animals that were previously thought to be extinct but have persisted almost unchanged on the deep reef slopes since the late Mesozoic (>65 MYA), such as sponges, brachiopods, echinoderms and Nautilus cephalopods. The expedition used a Cherokee Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) from the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (marum) in Bremen, Germany, to investigate deep-sea life down to about 800 metres depth.
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RV Sonne deep seabed survey in the Coral Sea |
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:00 |
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The German Research Vessel Sonne has one of the best deep-water multibeam mapping systems in the world, the Simrad EM120. The vessel was contracted by Leibnitz-Institute for Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) to conduct a series of oceanographic and marine geology expeditions in the Western Pacific during October to December 2009. Townsville was chosen as a convenient port to do a crew change-over and so the ship would have to transit across the Coral Sea to Australia. The Chief Scientists agreed to conduct a deep-water seabed survey with the EM120 multibeam system during the transit between PNG and Australia.
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