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12 Oct 2023
ArcGIS Pro toolbox release: CoMMa v1.0
The Marine Geoscience Group in collaboration with the British Geological Survey and University of Glasgow present a novel ArcGIS Pro toolbox. Confined Morphologies Mapping (CoMMa) Toolbox is an ArcGIS Pro toolbox created for semi-automated morphological mapping.
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17 Aug 2023
Irish Shelf Seabed Geomorphological Map (v2023)
The Marine Geoscience group at UCC and the Marine Institute present the Irish Shelf Seabed Geomorphological Map, the first high-resolution geomorphological map of the entire Irish continental shelf. Explore it HERE!
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![Schematic overview of marine litter clean up technologies and estimate costs by depth. Source: Dr. Alicia Mateos Cárdenas/Oceana](/en/media/research/marinegeo/mgimages/blog_1_litter.png)
24 Feb 2023
New Oceana collaboration: Litter clean-ups will not solve the marine plastics crisis
Our postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Alicia Mateos Cárdenas, recently completed a consultancy for Oceana Europe on the feasibility of seabed litter clean-ups.
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![410 kHz side-scan sonar image showing Target X14, 1547m water depth, eastern flank of the Lomonosov Ridge, near North Pole. Target subsequently verified as a hypersonic, aerial and surface snow delivery vehicle propelled by magical reindeer (reindeer not imaged)](/en/media/research/marinegeo/mgimages/Picture1.png)
16 Dec 2022
*****NEWS ALERT***** UCC Marine Geosciences Research Group saves Xmas!
Merry Xmas everybody
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