Overview

• Researchers from MBARI, USGS, and Stanford found no evidence of methane at the Sur Pockmark Field.
• Advanced underwater robots mapped the seafloor and collected sediment samples.
• Sediment gravity flows, not methane, maintain the pockmarks over hundreds of thousands of years.
• The findings are crucial for assessing the stability of potential offshore wind farm sites.
• The study was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.