Mapping the Ocean Floor

Seeing beneath the waves - mapping the ocean floor

Dr. Philippe Blondel, Deputy Director, Centre for Space, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Department of Physics, University of Bath

Oceans make up most of the Earth and can only be mapped using sound. The last decades have seen tremendous improvements in both our knowledge of the “Blue Planet” and in our capabilities to explore it. Based on the speaker’s own research, this talk will present the latest sensors and their main discoveries around the world, in particular at mid-ocean ridges, tsunami-generating areas offshore Spain and Portugal and fragile marine habitats such as deep-sea coral reefs and Arctic fjords.

BATH GEOL SOC VISIT: 
Thursday 2nd May, leave at 1730 for a burger before the lecture back at 2130.

Please sign up in geology room.