Q&A: Why the world needs a better map of the ocean floor

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Q&A: Why the world needs a better map of the ocean floor

Gaze into the ocean from the surface and you’ll be lucky to see a few tens of metres down. As for mapping the bottom, people have spent centuries developing tools, from early weighted lines to modern sonar. But the map of the ocean floor is still patchy. Huge mountains can hide, unmapped, in the vast expanse, often only discovered by rare careful studies. Helen Snaith is trying to change that. She is a senior data scientist at the National Ocean…

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59 visits The IDOOS project of the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) based at the University of Concepción (UdeC), which gives its name to this expedition, is born from a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together researchers from various areas such as geology, geophysics, oceanography and marine biology, among others. This approach allows the comprehensive study of the interrelated dynamic processes that occur in the deep ocean, pro…