Documents for the 6th GEBCO Science Day
The Sixth GEBCO Science Day will be hosted by the University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the Scripps Seaside Forum on 4th October 2011.
Posters and presentations submitted for inclusion at this year’s GEBCO Science Day will be made accessible from this page.
To submit material either
- send documents (less than 10Mbytes in size) as email attachments to gebco@bodc.ac.uk
- email gebco@bodc.ac.uk for details on how to upload files to an ftp site
Please note: posters should not exceed the following dimensions, eight feet wide by four feet high (2.4 meters wide by 1.2 meters high).
Contributions for the 6th GEBCO Science Day
Oral presentations (with provisional time schedule)
Time |
Title |
Author(s) *Presenting author if not first |
Affiliation(s) |
Abstract/ presentation |
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| 09:00 to 10:45 | First morning session | |||
| Welcoming remarks | Dr. Tony Haymet | Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) | ||
| Quality control for Multibeam echosounders at the French Naval Hydrographic Service (SHOM) | Christophe Vrignaud, Sophie Loyer, Patrick Michaux and Thierry Schmitt* | Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) |
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| European bathymetric database and digital elevation model (EMODNET Hydrography initiative) | Thierry Schmitt and the EMODNET Hydrography Partners | SHOM |  (54 KB) Abstract |
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| The bathymetry of the central Mediterranean Sea in the framework of the EMODnet project — a case study of bathymetric data integration and processing | Federica Foglini and Marzia Rovere | The Marine Sciences Research Institute (ISMAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Bologna, Italy | (12 KB) Abstract |
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| Effect of the Reunion Plumehead on Indo-Atlantic tectonics in the late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic | Steve Cande and Dave Stegman | SIO | (44 KB) Abstract |
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| 10:45 to 11:15 | Refreshment break | |||
| 11:15 to 12:15 | Second morning session | |||
| History of NOAA-Scripps collaboration in Pacific ocean mapping | Albert E. Theberge Jr. |
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Corps (Ret.), NOAA Central Library | ||
| Marie Tharp: Portrait of a Scientist | Hali Felt | University of Pittsburgh | ||
| 12:15 to 13:30 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:30 to 15:00 | First afternoon session | |||
| GEBCO-related high-Arctic activities, Summer 2011 | John Hall | Geological Survey of Israel, (Ret.) | (143 KB) Abstract |
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| Multibeam mapping in the search for remains of the Viking-age trading center, Birka, in Lake Mälaren, south central Sweden | Martin Jakobsson | University of Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Improvement in global marine gravity from retracked CryoSat | Emmanuel Garcia (1), David Sandwell (1) and Walter Smith (2) | (1) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), (2) NOAA | ||
| Hydrographic survey activities in tsunami-damaged harbors of Japan | Shin Tani and Taisei Morishita | Japanese Cabinet Secretariat for Ocean Policy, Government of Japan and the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard (JHOD) |
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| 15:00 to 15:30 | Refreshment break | |||
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Second afternoon session | |||
| GEBCO Undersea Feature Names Gazetteer Enhancement Project: Part I |
Maureen A. LeVoir (4), Lisa A. Taylor (2), Michel Huet (1), John C. Cartwright (2), and Hans Werner Schenke (3) | (1) International Hydrographic Bureau, (2) U.S. National Geophysical Data Center, (3) Alfred Wegener Institute, (4) CIRES - National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA | (883 KB) Presentation |
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| Bathymetry in the Cloud with GIS | Timothy Kearns and Beata Van Esch | Esri, Inc | (76 KB) Abstract |
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| Update on Google Ocean | Jenifer Austin Foulkes | |||
| 17:00 | Poster session with refreshments | |||
| 19:00 | Bus returns to hotel |
Posters
Author(s) *Contributing author if not first |
Affiliation(s) |
Title |
Abstract/poster |
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| Christopher Amante, Matthew Love, Barry Eakins | CIRES - National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA | A method for quantifying digital elevation model (DEM) uncertainty introduced by interpolative gridding |
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| Eric Mixon, Paul Elmore*, Fred Petry, Kevin Duvieilh | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Geosciences Division | Prototype variable resolution bathymetry toolbox and right TIN implementation |
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| Pauline Weatherall (1) and Colin Jacobs (2) | (1) British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC); (2) UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC) | Updating the GEBCO_08 Grid – data sets planned for inclusion in the next release of the data set | Abstract (49 KB) |
| Alexis Shakas (1) and David Sandwell* (2) | (1) Delft University of Technology, (2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Improvements in global bathymetry with US multibeam and CryoSat altimetry data | Abstract (10 KB) |
| Anastasia Abramova (1,2), Thomas Lippmann (2), Brian Calder (2), Larry Mayer (2) and Dave Monahan (2) | (1) Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; (2) University of New Hampshire | Comparison and evaluation of publicly available grids in the Arctic | Abstract (40 KB) |
| Karen Marks | U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | The GEBCO Cookbook: a progress report | Poster (1.4 MB) |
| Karen Marks and Walter Smith | U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Coherence between altimetric gravity and multibeam bathymetry grids | Poster (11 MB) |
| Suzanne Carbotte (1), Stephen Miller (2), Andrew Maffei (3), Shawn Smith (4), Robert Arko (1), Vicki Ferrini (1), Karen Stocks (5), Cynthia Chandler (3), Mark Bourassa (4), Dru Clark (2), Suzanne O’Hara (1), Aaron Sweeney (2) | (1) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; (2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography; (3) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; (4) Florida State University; (5) San Diego Supercomputer Center | Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R): progress in systematically capturing underway data from the US Academic Fleet, including multibeam | Abstract (56 KB) |
| Rochelle Wigley (1,2) and Dave Monahan (3) | (1) GEBCO Nippon Scholar; (2) Council for Geoscience, South Africa; (3) University of New Hampshire | The Indian Ocean GEBCO Nippon Foundation Bathymetric compilation project | Poster (2 MB) |
| Edward D. Zaron (1) and Marie-Aude Pradal (2) | (1) Portland State University and (2) Johns Hopkins University | Improved Continental Shelf Topography via Hydrodynamic Data Assimilation |
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| Don C Ventura, MRICS (1), Chris Spencer (2), and Jerry C Wilson (1) | (1) Fugro Pelagos, San Diego, USA; (2) Fugro OSAE, Bremen, Germany | Contributions of Airborne Bathymetric Lidar for the Global Coastal Zone Bathymetry Data Base | Abstract (178 KB) |
GEBCO's meetings in 2011
The meetings of GEBCO's Guiding Committee and Sub-Committees, TSCOM and iSCRUM will be held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 3-7 October 2011. The meeting of the Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) will be held 12-16 September 2011 in Beijing, China. Access further details about the meetings.
Previous GEBCO Science Days
The annual GEBCO Science Day was initiated in 2006. Access posters and presentations given at previous Science Days.