Walter Munk, who gave the allies a strategic edge in WWII, helped nurture a university into existence, and became a living synonym for oceanography, died February 8, 2019 at his home in La Jolla, California. He was 101. As a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, Munk made groundbreaking observations of waves, ocean
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Chesapeake Technology, the company that makes SonarWiz data collection and post-processing software, has renewed its multi-year partnership with the BentProp Project, which has used SonarWiz software since Dec. 2010 to create and review sonar images to identify high-likelihood search targets such as planes on the seafloor. Hundreds of images are scanned each day during a typical one-month project. Since 2014,
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Starting this week, anyone can eavesdrop on sounds in the deep sea via a continuous streaming YouTube video that carries live sound from 900 m (3,000 ft.) below the surface of Monterey Bay. The sounds on the stream come from an underwater microphone (hydrophone) that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) placed on the seafloor in 2015. The hydrophone
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Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc. in cooperation with Fukada Salvage and Marine Works, has completed its third high-resolution controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) survey of near-surface gas hydrates using the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Vulcan system in Japanese waters. The survey was conducted for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Following the successful CSEM surveys and 3D inversion models
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Coast Guard Cutter Healy and its 87 crew members returned home to Seattle in time for Thanksgiving following a five-month deployment conducting science operations on four diverse missions in the Arctic Ocean. Healy’s first mission with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center tested new technologies in the harsh Arctic environment. Healy tested two unmanned vehicles and a new oil
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