There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary ...

Nation & World Science Move over, robots: Sea lions with cameras can map the ocean floor Aug. 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm Updated Aug. 11, 2024 at 3:00 pm ...

These underwater mountains affect ocean currents and can create nutrient-rich areas that attract marine life. "We won’t get the full ship-based mapping done by" 2030, Sandwell said.

Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

With a 5-mile (8 kilometers) resolution and 21-day path covering most of the planet, just one year of data from SWOT gives a clearer picture of the ocean floor than 30 years of data collectively ...

Scientists decided to try to map the remote, aquatic ecosystems around Kangaroo Island and Olive Island in Australia by attaching video cameras to the area’s sea lions, which routinely dive 300 ...