Elephant seals improve maps of Antarctic seafloor
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oceanographers are using data collected by elephant seals to improve their map of the seafloor on Antarctica's continental shelf. The new map results from a collaboration between Daniel Costa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, who has been studying southern elephant seals in the region, and oceanographer Laurie Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.