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This week’s Science Café comes from the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University where Adam is exploring a project called ‘Sustainable Expansion of the Applied Coastal and Marine Sectors’ – SEACAMS for short.

SEACAMS is a joint initiative with Swansea University and was launched five years ago and provides scientific expertise for businesses working in coastal areas in Wales and out to sea. Its scientists have been called upon to create detailed maps of the seafloor; to locate shipwrecks; and to investigate the feasibility and environmental impacts of tidal energy projects.Ìý

Adam’s host is Dr. Mike Roberts who shows him how multi-beam sonar scans are giving us a high-definition picture of the sea bed. He meets oceanographer Dr. Sophie Ward whose specialism is hydrodynamics – the movement of tides, currents and wave. Marine biologists Dr. Tim Whitton and Gemma Veneruso explain how they’re working to understand the ecology of the seas off Anglesey, from plankton to porpoises. And Dr. Tim D’Urban Jackson reveals the laser and drone technology that’s helping scientists to map the coast in ever greater detail. We also hear from the Director of SEACAMS, Prof. Colin Jago.

It’s said that we have better maps of the Moon than we do of the bottom of our own oceans and the sea floor is pretty much an unexplored world. But thanks to SEACAMS we’re beginning to understand What Lies Beneath…

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