{"id":87556,"date":"2019-02-08T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/navy-funded-scientist-wins-award-for-groundbreaking-seafloor-map"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:02:48","slug":"navy-funded-scientist-wins-award-for-groundbreaking-seafloor-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/navy-funded-scientist-wins-award-for-groundbreaking-seafloor-map","title":{"rendered":"Navy-Funded Scientist Wins Award for Groundbreaking Seafloor Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navy-funded-scientist-wins-award-for-groundbreaking-seafloor-map2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps, has been awarded American Geophysical Union\u2019s Charles A. Whitten Medal for creating the world\u2019s first comprehensive, high-resolution map of the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>In a long-running project sponsored by the U.S. Navy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Sandwell\u2019s groundbreaking work provides the first high-resolution map of the ocean floor,\u201d said Dr. Tom Drake, head of ONR\u2019s Ocean Battlespace and Expeditionary Access Department. \u201cThis has opened new research areas for oceanography, marine geology and geophysics \u2014 critical topics for the U.S. Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/navy-funded-scientist-wins-award-for-groundbreaking-seafloor-map?fb_ref=oxNcOpx1ot-Linkedin\">https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/navy-funded-scien...t-Linkedin<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps, has been awarded American Geophysical Union\u2019s Charles A. Whitten Medal for creating the world\u2019s first comprehensive, high-resolution map of the ocean floor. In a long-running project sponsored by the U.S. Navy\u2019s Office of Naval Research, Sandwell combined satellite data with sonar measurements to develop a global depth chart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}