The Rion–Antirion Strait (Greece, 50–100 m depth) hosts rich Marine Animal Forests (MAFs), formed by several species of anthozoans, sponges, bryozoans and tunicates. Using twelve video transects collected in 2019 and 2023 and a Regional Oceanographic Modelling System (ROMS) hydrodynamic model, we characterized the assemblages’ biological composition, geomorphology, and physical drivers. Strong bidirectional bottom currents (0....

The 1956 Amorgos earthquake, with a magnitude of Ms = 7.5, caused a destructive tsunami in the Central Aegean Sea. Two gravity cores were collected south of Amorgos and Anafi Islands, respectively, confirming submarine landslide deposits linked to the 1956 earthquake. The 1956 Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) vary in thickness from 55 to 100 cm in the cores. The predominant fraction of the sediments is clay, followed by sand (in...

Our understanding of the distribution of coralligenous formations, throughout but mostly on the Eastern Mediterranean seafloor, is still poor and mostly relies on presence-only opportunistic trawling and fishermen reports. Previous efforts to gather this information created relevant geodatabases that led to a first draft predictive spatial distribution of coralligenous formations in the Mediterranean Sea using habitat suitabil...

The aim of this study is to present the results of the first complete marine habitat mapping through marine remote sensing techniques in Gyaros Island, a remote island in the Cyclades archipelago with a great historical and ecological value. Gyaros Island is of great biological importance and, for this reason, since 2011, is part of the NATURA 2000 network and, by 2019, is characterised as a marine protected area (MPA). More t...

Koločep bay is a 30 km elongated karst basin located between the Elafiti Islands and the mainland with a NW–SE general direction. The bay lies within the seismically active southern Dalmatia zone. Irregular grid sub-bottom profiles and two legacy reflection seismic profiles have been used to determine the overall morphology of the bay and to establish the seismic stratigraphy of its sedimentary infill. Three major seismic–stra...

Through the study of three wreck sites over the Methoni Bay (Greece), this article presents the benefits of spatio-temporal integration and correlation of marine geophysical data in a common three-dimensional (3D) geographical platform for analysis, and visualisation of shipwreck ruins and for interpretation of physical processes over wreck sites. The integration of 3D datasets has been proven to support identification of arch...