Katy Croff Bell is making a visual treasure map of the deep sea

After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...
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Off the Aleutian Islands, a research crew peers down deep to map a remote ocean floor

KODIAK — For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life ...
Alaska Public Media

Off Alaska coast, research crew peers down, down, down to map deep and remote ocean

In this photo provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration, a lone sunstar rests among many brittle stars taken from the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska on July 24, 2023, while exploring the mounds and ...
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Scientists Exploring the Pacific Floor Come Across Underwater Mountains Taller Than the Rockies

The profound depths of an ocean are enshrouded in silence. But some spots erupt with a stunning soundscape: seamounts. Called “underwater mountains,” seamounts concentrate the various sounds of the ...
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World’s Most Daunting Ocean Project: Mapping Entire Seafloor

TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, ...