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The annual GEBCO Science Day consists of oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics relating to seafloor mapping and its applications. It is open to all to contribute and attend. Presentations are now available from Science Day 2016 along with those from previous years. This year

EMODnet is a project, funded by the European Commission, to bring together marine data into interoperable, continuous and publicly available bathymetric data sets for complete maritime basins in European waters. The latest EMODnet digital bathymetric grid, published in October 2016, is now available

A team of graduate fellows from The Nippon Foundation’s GEBCO Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry (PCOB) Training Programme, will be taking part in the $7million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. The GEBCO-NF team have entered this three year global competition aimed at challenging teams to

The GEBCO community is pleased to welcome the students just beginning the 2016/2017 class of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Programme. This 12-month course leads to a Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry (PCOB) and aims to train a new generation of scientists and hydrographers in ocean

The Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping was held in Monaco in June 2016 and was attended by over 150 senior representatives, scientists, scholars and business associates from major ocean related organisations from around the world. It has endorsed the objective of Seafloor 2030 – that the

The Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping was held in Monaco in June 2016 and was attended by over 150 senior representatives, scientists, scholars and business associates from major ocean related organisations from around the world. It has endorsed the objective of Seafloor 2030 – that the

The Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping was held in Monaco in June 2016 and was attended by over 150 senior representatives, scientists, scholars and business associates from major ocean related organisations from around the world. The aim was to develop a roadmap for future ocean floor mapping. As

Among keynote speakers at a major conference on the comprehensive mapping of the ocean floor to be held in Monaco in June is Dr Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985. Dr Ballard is Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration at the Graduate School of Oceanography

For over a century GEBCO has been mapping the world’s seafloor from the coast to the deepest trench. Access an article in Hydro International magazine that outlines GEBCO's development from its early bathymetric chart production through to the development of bathymetric grids. In June this year

In May 2016 an international team of ocean mapping experts from Europe, Canada and the USA will launch the 4th Transatlantic Mapping Survey under the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance. The expedition, on board the Irish research vessel, RV Celtic Explorer, will map the seafloor between St. John’s