The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

The demand for offshore wind has skyrocketed, like all renewable energy sources — but the necessary work of surveying, inspecting and mapping coastal areas is stuck in the past. Bedrock's autonomous ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) announced today with Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) that the National Oceanic and ...

In July last year, Saildrone launched one its sensor-packed unmanned aquatic drones on a voyage of discovery in the North Pacific, tasked with filling in ocean mapping blanks around Alaska's Aleutian ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

PORT ANGELES — The Makah Indian Tribe will receive $288,482 in federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to support its ocean data mapping capabilities. U.S.

The NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer at sea during the 2022 Caribbean Mapping expedition. The ship will be in Alaska waters for much of this year. (Image by Anna Sagatov/NOAA) Recent efforts are pushing ...

Since we first got wind of Saildrone's ocean data-gathering autonomous USVs back in 2018, they've mapped miles of ocean floor, chased hurricanes (and even shared video from inside Hurricane Sam), and ...

Until the 1950s, scientists didn't have a clear understanding of what the seafloor looked like. Geologist Marie Tharp turned years of data into easily digestible maps. She also discovered the ...