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This week鈥檚 Science Caf茅 comes from the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University where Adam is exploring a project called 鈥楽ustainable Expansion of the Applied Coastal and Marine Sectors鈥� 鈥� 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.听

Adam鈥檚 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 鈥� the movement of tides, currents and wave. Marine biologists Dr. Tim Whitton and Gemma Veneruso explain how they鈥檙e working to understand the ecology of the seas off Anglesey, from plankton to porpoises. And Dr. Tim D鈥橴rban Jackson reveals the laser and drone technology that鈥檚 helping scientists to map the coast in ever greater detail. We also hear from the Director of SEACAMS, Prof. Colin Jago.

It鈥檚 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鈥檙e beginning to understand What Lies Beneath鈥�

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