TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, ...

Google is celebrating the life and career of American geologist Marie Tharp on Monday, November 21, with a fun take on its iconic logo. The world's favorite search engine has a dedicated team of ...

Marie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp Until the 1950s, scientists didn't have a clear understanding of what the ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn ...

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 ...

🛍️ The 121 best Amazon Black Friday tech and gadget deals 🛍️ Ocean explorers have long tried to survey the contours of the seafloor, but today's charts still pale in comparison to those of distant ...

You can listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify each week. Follow this link if you're listening on Apple News. This week, we chat with journalist Laura Trethewey, author of The Deepest Map ...

Ocean floor map. Painted by Austrian artist Heinrich C. Berann, this 1976 map was based on bathymetric studies by geologists Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen. In summer 2019, the privately funded "Five ...

Around much of the planet, an aquatic mystery leaves scientists in the dark. “For most of the ocean, we don’t know what the bottom looks like,” said Nathan Angelakis, a doctoral student at the South ...

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 ...