A low-cost procedure for automatic seafloor mapping, with particular reference to coral reef conservation in developing nations.
Bond finance - is unlikely to be used for a seafloor observatory network project given its small size.
Challenger Division scientists have been studying the seafloor sediments in the Canary Basin for over 20 years.
Divers have also been used to survey water uprisings from the seafloor in the areas off the Dounreay foreshore.
Even today calving icebergs plowing across the seafloor destroy everything in their path.
Only some 0.0001 per cent of the deep seafloor has been subject to biological investigations.
The metal traps rest on the seafloor and collect king crabs as they enter to take the bait.
The overall aim of these stations is for the long term investigation of seafloor processes.
Therefore, we are using the box corer, which allows us to recover undisturbed surface sediments from the seafloor.
This report was prepared by Dr. Alan Judd (University of Sunderland ), one of the world's foremost authorities on seafloor pockmarks.