Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Natural Resources Canada (NRC) are mapping the sea floor in the Arctic Ocean, one of the least explored ocean regions. This research will shed light on the Arctic's geologic history and help define the limits of the U.S. and Canadian extended continental shelf (MORE) |
A small group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Summer Research Program (MSRP) visited the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to get a virtual tour with the GeoWall, a stereo-projection system used to illustrate spatial data sets in 3-D. (MORE) |
Kathryn Scanlon and Dann Blackwood of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, participated in a research cruise to study cold-water coral habitats and paleo-oceanographic conditions in the Drake Passage between Antarctica and the southern tip of South America.(MORE) |