What’s New at the Antarctic Multibeam Bathymetry Synthesis

June 2008

Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation updated with swath bathymetry data from NBP0702 (Chief Scientist S.Jacobs, Amundsen Continental Shelf and the Antarctic Ice Sheet, McMurdo - Chile), NBP0403 (Cande, Lyttelton, N.Z.-Punta Arenas, Chile), and NBP0301B (Walker Smith, McMurdo-McMurdo).

May 2008

In a major addition to the database, basic cruise information, navigation and primary underway data sets collected during expeditions of the L. Gould from 2003 to 2007 are now available. Basic cruise documentation added for LMG0301 (H.Ducklow), LMG0302 (R.Beardsley), LMG0303 (G.Berger), LMG0304 (W.Detrich), LMG0304A (W.Detrich), LMG0308 (J.Yen), LMG0309 (D.Blake), LMG0401 (W.Fraser), LMG0402 (C.Measures), LMG0403 (J.Hildebrand), LMG0404 (E.Domack), LMG0411 (S.Emerson), LMG0412 (W.Trivelpiece), LMG0413A (R.Naveen), LMG0414 (K.Halanych), LMG0501 (W.Fraser), LMG0507 (C.Stump), LMG0514 (R.Naveen), LMG0514A (K.Smith), LMG0602 (L.Madin), LMG0605 (K.Halanych), LMG0611B (R.Naveen), LMG0707 (P.Olsgaard), LMG0717 (R.MacPhee), LMG0801 (W.Fraser), and LMG0802 (D.DeMaster) with data sets of JGOFS, CTD, XBT, XCTD, Weather Images and ADCP ingested where available. The transit/maintenance legs of LMG0305, LMG0305A (K.Steffen), LMG0306, LMG0307, LMG0405, LMG0406, LMG0408, LMG0512, LMG0603A, LMG0604, LMG0608, LMG0612, LMG0614, LMG0712, LMG0713, and LMG0715 were also created.

Multibeam data from NBP0304 (Chief Scientist Cande, NZ-Dutch Harbor, Alaska), NBP0408 (Chief Scientist S. Jacobs, ANSLOPE Leg_III), NBP0602 (J.Stock, McMurdo - Punta Arenas, Chile), NBP0301B (Walker Smith, McMurdo-McMurdo), NBP0403 (Cande, Lyttelton, NZ - Punta Arenas, Chile) and NBP9504 (seabeam test, off New Zealand) were recently added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation.

April 2008

Multibeam bathymetry data from NBP0304C now added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation and accessible through GeoMapApp.

March 2008

Multibeam data from the following cruises now accessible through GeomapApp: NBP9601, NBP0207, NBP0209, NBP0405.

February 2008

GeoMapApp version 1.6.4 released. Pan function added; ability to import and save grids in GMT v3 and v4 NetCDF formats. Profiles can be taken across all imported and high-resolution grids. Interface for Multi-Channel Seismics and for downloading swath ping files improved.

NBP0305A multibeam data (Chief Scientist Walker Smith, New Zealand - McMurdo) was added to the Global Multi-Resolution Topography compilation and accessible through GeoMapApp.

December 2007

The multibeam data from Antarctic cruises NBP0506, contributed by Miles McPhee, which included data in the vicinity of the Maud Rise and data from NBP0402 (Visbeck, McMurdo - New Zealand) has been added to the GeoMapApp bathymetry tiles.

November 2007

At the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, additional multibeam swath data as well as bathymetric grids and images included for Eugene Domack's cruise NBP0107 (Dec 2001 - Jan 2002). Gravity/magnetics data, sound velocity profiles, JGOFS and ADCP data, and bathymetric grids and images, added for Ross Sea cruise NBP0402 (Feb-Apr 2004, Chief Scientist Martin Visbeck). For southwest Pacific cruises NBP0403 (Apr-May 2004, principal investigators Cande/Stock) now available are raw and processed multibeam swath files, bathymetric grids and images, CTD, sound velocity, JGOFS and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files. For the more recent southwest Pacific cruise NBP0607A (Aug-Sep 2006, Chief Scientist Marcel Croon), raw and processed multibeam swath files, sound velocity, JGOFS and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files added to database. Single-channel seismic reflection and sub-bottom data available for SHALDRIL cruise NBP0602A (Feb-Apr 2006, Chief Scientist John Anderson), along with raw and processed multibeam bathymetry swath files, grids and images, and ADCP and sound velocity data. Single-channel seismics data, ADCP and gravity/magnetics data added for West Antarctic cruise NBP9902 (Feb-Mar 1999, Chief Scientist John Anderson). Raw and processed multibeam data and ADCP added for sea trials leg NBP0607C (Oct 2006, Chief Scientist Joann Stock). Basic database entries created for transit/maintenance legs NBP0704, NBP0705, NBP0706, NBP0707, NBP0708 and Gould leg LMG0707.

October 2007

For NBP0506 (Jul-Sep 2005, Chief Scientist Miles McPhee), all digital data added to database, including raw and processed multibeam swath files, bathymetric grids and images, CTD, sound velocity and ADCP data, gravity and magnetics files. Along the western margin of the Antarctic Peninsula, updated multibeam data and bathymetric grids and images added for NBP0201 (Jan-Mar 2001, Chief Scientist John Anderson). Multibeam data and bathymetric grids and images can now be downloaded for NBP0703 (Mar-May 2007, chief scientists Anderson and Hallet). Basic cruise entry, ADCP and JGOFS data added for LMG0706 (May 2007, chief scientists Sidell/Costa). NBP0407 (Bartek) Lyttelton - McMurdo multibeam was added to the GeoMapApp bathymetry tiles.

GeoMapApp version 1.6.2 released. Includes improved interfaces for multi- and single-channel seismics and digitizer operations. Graphing tool for imported data tables refined. Lasso tool improved. John Hall's archive of Arctic sea bottom photos added. Multibeam swath file download interface updated.

MGDS-GfG booth in the exhibition hall, and lunchtime workshop at the Fall GSA meeting in Denver.

September 2007

The interface for Create Maps and Grids now uses Google Maps (TM) functionality to access the MGDS Global Multi-Resolutional digital elevation model Topography (GMRT).

August 2007

This month, the multibeam data from a number of Antarctic cruises was added to the GeoMapApp bathymetry tiles. In the McMurdo/ice edge/New Zealand region, NBP0306 (Luyendyk) and NBP0301A (Bart) are now in the tiles. NBP9908 (Chile to New Zealand, Cande) and NBP9806A, a transit from Honolulu to Western Samoa, are also visible in the GeoMapApp South Polar dataset.

New audio-visual tutorials added for GeoMapApp.

July 2007

New gridded bathymetric compilation for the Amundsen Sea contributed by Frank Nitsche and colleagues added to database.

Multibeam swath data files for NBP0406, contributed by Steve Cande, added new data to the GeoMapApp bathymetric tiles in the southern Indian Ocean en route to New Zealand from Cape Town.

GeoMapApp version 1.6.0 released. Alternative base maps loaded using a Web Map Service; imported data tables exported as Google Earth (tm) KMZ files and scaled by colour and size. Lasso tool allows selection of points; tabular data can be sorted. Individual swath bathymetry data files now identified and linked to data download web page. Multi-Channel Seismics, PetDB and DSDP/ODP interfaces improved.

June 2007

The MGDS Global Multi-Resolutional digital elevation model Topography (GMRT) as used in GeoMapApp can now be viewed in Google (tm) Earth directly through our Web Map Service with faster loading and viewing performance. Download GMA4GE.kml and launch in GoogleEarth to explore.

The GeoMapApp bathymetry tileset was updated by the addition of NBP0301 (McMurdo/ice edge) contributed by Lou Bartek.

May 2007

Data from the major airborne geophysical SOAR survey of Lake Vostok have been added to the database (www.marine-geo.org/link/entry.php?id=SOAR-LVS). These data include gravity, radar, and laser altimetry data on ice surface topography (profile data) acquired and processed by the SOAR facility at UTIG, magnetic profile data acquired by SOAR and reduced by USGS, and final processed, cross-over corrected and leveled grids of gravity and magentics, ice thickness and bedrock elevation from M. Studinger LDEO (including detailed documentation on processing and publication list).

New color palettes for grid functions and improved user interface added to latest GeoMapApp release.

April 2007

A searchable menu tool and an upgraded and expanded WFS interface added to GeoMapApp. Direct WFS connections now available to station and physical sample feature information (including instruments, cores, dredges, borehole logs, earthquake catalogues, and so on) at IRIS, UNAVCO, NGDC, LDEO-BRG, PETDB and MGDS.

March 2007

All multibeam data for NBP0507 (Sep-Oct 2005, Chief Scientist Marcel Croon) now available.

February 2007

Multibeam and CTD data, and core log information added for NBP0505 (Jun-Jul 2005, Chief Scientist John Anderson).

Major new release of GeoMapApp (1.5.0) with simplifications and updates to the user interface. Options to import a variety of data types from the user's desktop including data tables, grids, and shapefiles can now be accessed under the File menu. Release includes a new option under the File menu to import data through an OGC-compliant Web Feature Service (WFS). Click on the Web Services link under our Tools and Services to access the MGDS beta-WFS.

December 2006

Complete field data from cruise NBP0603 (Eugene Domack) survey of Larson Ice Shelf added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, grids and images, gravity, single channel seismic and subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles, ADCP, CTD data along with information about coring and grab and camera operations.

Interoperability project GEOWS with IRIS and UNAVCO presented at fall AGU meeting. As part of project IRIS, UNAVCO and MGDS have established a beta-version OGC-compliant Web Service for station information from their data holdings for the Gulf of California FS.

MGDS booth in the exhibition hall at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco.

November 2006

Field data from cruise NBP0601A (Walker Smith) survey to the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, flourescence, current measurement, sound velocity profiles, ADCP, and CTD data along with biological and fluid sampling information.

Field data from cruise NBP0601 (Giacomo DiTullio) study of phytoplankton community dynamics in the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, ADCP, CTD, and fluid chemistry data.

Marine, airborne, and land gravity profile data in the earlier ADGRAV database developed at LDEO by Bob Arko and Robin Bell have been migrated to the integrated AMBS database and can be accessed through both Data Link and GeoMapApp (Custom Data Viewers – Bathymetry, Gravity and Magnetics Profiles and select ADGRAV database), in addition to the original ADGRAV search interface.

October 2006

Complete field data from cruise NBP0602A (John Anderson) SHALDRIL project added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, gravity, magnetics, subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles.

Field data from NBP0508 (Patrick Neale), study of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the Ross Sea now available. Data include single beam bathymetry field data, gravity, ADCP, CTD, and fluid chemistry data.

Complete field data from cruise NBP0507 (Marcel Croon) added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry field data, gravity, magnetics, subbottom profile data, sidescan sonarm sound velocity profiles,CTD and JGOFS data files,CTD, links to SIO for ADCP data, and satellite meterological data.

Complete field data from cruise NBP0505 (John Anderson) added to database. Data include multibeam bathymetry ping files, grids and images, gravity, magnetics, and subbottom profile data, sound velocity profiles, JGOFS data files, with links to SIO for ADCP data.

September 2006

Multibeam bathymetry swath files, grids and maps and underway geophysics from NBP0602 (Stock and Cande) added to database. Underway data includes, gravity, magnetics, subbottom and ADCP data. Survey includes coverage of the Bellingshausen-Antarctica-Pacific Triple Junction.

Select near bottom photographs collected at core stations conducted these legacy Eltanin, Vema, and Conrad expeditions have been scanned from negatives and georeferenced and can be browsed in GeoMapApp (Available Data – General Viewers – Tables – Seafloor Photos).

August 2006

Multibeam bathymetry (swath data, grids and maps) from the following cruises have been entered into the data base:

NBP0305A: Walker Smith

NBP0306: Bruce Luyendyk.

NBP0207: Steve Cande

NBP9601: Lou Bartek (processed multibeam data)

NBP9507: Gary Klinkhammer (raw multibeam data)

Legacy single channel seismic (SCS) reflection data project completed. A total of 415 legs of SCS profiles spanning the global ocean and including the Southern Ocean can now be viewed in GeoMapApp.

July 2006

Bathymetry grids and maps from Scott Gallager's REMUS survey, from the Polar Remote Interactive Marine Observatory (PRIMO) project, now available through Data Link (entry: Palmer_Gallager).

For cruises from the 2005-2006 field season and future expeditions, bathymetry grids and maps made during each cruise will also be added to database, in addition to swath ping data. Also beginning with the 2005-2006 field season, a broader suite of data types from Palmer expeditions will now be added to the database. These may include (depending on cruise) MGD77 files, JGOF files, XBTs, CTDs, sound velocity profiles, cruise satellite images and MOCNESS data.

Major new release of GeoMapApp v1.4.2, which includes significant reorganization of the user interface as well as improved functionality. See http://www.marine-geo.org/geomapapp/whatsnew.html for details on new updates.

May 2006

Beta release of multi-resolution gridded global bathymetry and topography data set for viewing in GoogleEarth (http://www.marine-geo.org/Data4GoogleEarth.html). Download kml file, launch GoogleEarth and browse and zoom on the available seafloor bathymetry.

March 2006

New search capability now available in Data Link. In addition to the ability to search by geographic area, ISS, investigator and cruise ID, you can now search by the full list of data types or device types cataloged in the database. Use these search options to find out where the selected data type has been collected and to download any data files available in the database.

Many new data sets now available for exploring through the Databases menu in GeoMapApp. Select Import Data – Load – File – Browse DataBases – Global.

February 2006

Many new Help pages added to GeoMapApp.

January 2006

GeoMapApp v1.3.0 released with new automatic focus as well as new features in the Import Data option on the Databases menu. Caution: after you load a grid in GeoMapApp the automatic focus will also automatically load a new grid each time you zoom and pan. Dispose of grid before zooming for best performance.

December 2005

Booth in Exhibition Hall at Fall AGU meeting features the Data Management System.

November 2005

Updated metadata forms package (version 3.5) is now available incorporating latest upgrades.

October 2005

New option in GeoMapApp to save images as “.kmz” files for viewing in GoogleEarth. With this option,  use GeoMapApp to dynamically generate a map of area of interest, save image as .kmz file to your desktop and then open with GoogleEarth.

Web Map Service (WMS) beta service now deployed to serve our global bathymetry. WMS is a standard for web-services, proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Web Map Service enables web-based creation of maps from raster and vector datasets. The generated maps can be visualized by common web-browsers and/or OGC-enabled client applications.

New options are now available within Data Link's Map View display;

1. Beta version of new option in Map View to view global bathymetry (Global DEM option). Users can zoom in to display higher resolution bathymetry. Beta version has problem with map display at +/-180°longitude which affects maps for Lau Basin region. 

2. Query function (under “Mode” button) now available within Map View links to further information on cruise/dive survey tracks or station information.

The following Palmer cruises have had information and non-proprietary data added to Data Link:
NBP9204   Huntley, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Antarctic Ecological Rates)
NBP9301   Lawver, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Heat Flow Around West Antarctica)
NBP9303   Veit, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Seabirds Feeding on Krill)
NBP9505   Jeffries, Lyttelton Punta Arenas (Sea ice development)
NBP9508  Garrison, Lyttelton - McMurdo (Food web and bloom in the Ross Sea)
NBP0107  Berger, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (Antarctic Pennisula sediments)
NBP0201 Anderson, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas

                  (Geology of the continental shelves of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula)
NBP0301 Bartek, McMurdo/Ice Edge - McMurdo/Ice Edge

                 (Site surveys for drilling from the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf)
NBP0409  Kiene, Lyttelton - McMurdo (Biogeochemical cycling in Ross Sea)
NBP0502 Anderson, Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas (SHALDRIL)
NBP0305 Neale, Lyttelton - Lyttelton (Ross Sea mixing)
NBP0405 transit, Cape Town,South Africa - Cape Town
NBP0305A Walker Smith, Lyttleton - McMurdo/Ice Edge (IVARS )
NBP0402  Visbeck, McMurdo/Ice Edge 2004-04-09 Lyttelton, (AnSlope project)
NBP0408 Jacobs, Lyttelton - Lyttelton (AnSlope project)
NBP0301A Bart, McMurdo/Ice Edge- McMurdo/Ice Edge (Neogene expansions of the Antarctic Ice Sheets)
NBP0406 Cande, Stock, Cape Town,South Africa - Lyttelton ( Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific)
NBP0501B transit, Lyttelton,New Zealand - Punta Arenas
NBP0304B transit, Barrow,Alaska - Honolulu
NBP0304C transit, Napier,New Zealand - Honolulu
NBP0304D transit, Napier,New Zealand - Lyttelton

September 2005    

Bathymetry data was incorporated into the Geomapapp south polar and mercator projection bathymetry compilations from the following Southern Ocean cruises:
NBP0101 (Leventer, Indian Ocean coast of Antarctica)
NBP9805 (Holik, transit, Punta Arenas to Seattle)
NBP9705 (Gordon, Muench, Weddell-Scotia Confluence)
NBP9704B (Holik, transit, Talcahuano - Punta Arenas, Chile)
NBP9603A (Holik, transit, Hobart - Lyttelton)
NBP9501 (John Anderson, Ross Sea)

An ISO 19115-compliant profile for cruise metadata has been developed for use as a REST-based web service.

Project names, award numbers and links to project websites for many Palmer cruises have been added in an ongoing effort.

August 2005

Personnel information has been included in the database for 32 N.B.Palmer cruise legs from 2002 through 2005.

July 2005

Web-based "Map View" tool is now available to display cruise/dive tracks and borders/coastlines on world map with pan/zoom capability.  It is based on open source MapServer GIS software.

A new version of GeoMapApp (1.2_08) includes access to Alvin dive photos and a prototype GIS layer interface.  An interface to DSDP data has also been added.

April 2005

New forms for reporting cruise information are now available for downloading.  These forms are designed to capture who, what, when, where a cruise as well as inventories of all data collected, line logs, deployed instrument information, station, and sample logs.

Bathymetry data from NBP0201, contributed by John Anderson, released and incorporated into GeoMapApp global bathymetry compilations.

March 2005

Bathymetry data from NBP9806A (transit), NBP0101 contributed by Amy Leventer, and NBP0202 contributed by Robert Beardsley now incorporated into the GeoMapApp Mercator projection bathymetry.

December 2004

New website launched providing simplified access to all database projects and tools of the Marine Geoscience Data Management System.

Booth for Data Management System within Exhibition Hall at Fall AGU. Article on the DMS published in December 21 issue of EOS.

October 2004

All Palmer multibeam bathymetry data from 2002 and early 2003 (up to NBP0304A) now incorporated into database with proprietary holds.

Single channel seismic reflection profiles from cruises of the R/V Conrad, Eltanin and Vema can now be downloaded from Data Link as well as browsed through GeoMapApp.