Navy-funded scientist wins award for groundbreaking seafloor map
by MarEx 18 Feb 2019 00:21 AEDT
A version of Dr. Sandwell's sea floor map reveals details about earthquakes (red dots), sea floor-spreading ridges and faults © Dr. David Sandwell / UCSD
Dr. David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps, has been awarded American Geophysical Union's Charles A. Whitten Medal for creating the world's first comprehensive, high-resolution map of the ocean floor.
In a long-running project sponsored by the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research, Sandwell combined satellite data with sonar measurements to develop a global depth chart of unprecedented detail. His work has charted thousands of previously unidentified mountains, trenches, and other features in the deepest and least explored parts of the ocean. The work is not only of academic interest: it provides crucial intelligence and scientific information for the Navy.
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