General news

At the end of December 2015, Mr. David Clark completed a five-year term as the Permanent Secretary to the Joint IOC-IHO Guiding Committee for GEBCO and has now retired from this role. The GEBCO community would like to express its thanks and appreciation to Dave for all his work for GEBCO over the

The GEBCO community would like to express its thanks and gratitude to Dr. Paul Elmore of the US Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Centre for his contribution to GEBCO by organising and convening GEBCO Science Day since 2012. Science Day consists of oral presentations and poster displays

An updated version of the IHO-IOC GEBCO Cook Book, is now available from web pages hosted at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. The Cook Book is a technical reference manual on how to build a bathymetric grid. It was created with the aim of

A team of scientists have recently returned from the Petermann Glacier 2015 expedition to the waters off North West Greenland where the Petermann Glacier drains the northwestern sector of the Greenland Ice sheet (GIS) into the Nares Strait of the Arctic Ocean. A short video has been produced showing

A new digital bathymetric model (DBM) for the northeast Greenland continental shelf (74°N – 81°N) has been released. Find out more about the data set from the accompanying paper: To help with this task we are encouraging the global community to join in. Through crowdsourcing initiatives, i.e

A printable version of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) v3 is now available to download. Access the IBCAO printable map as a (230 Mbytes) Please note that because of the size of the file we recommend it is saved to disk rather than opened from the above link. The goal

The annual GEBCO Science Day consists of oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics relating to ocean-floor mapping and its applications. It is open to all to contribute and attend. This year, Science Day was held on the 5th October. It was hosted by the Royal Malaysian Navy and

The GEBCO community would like to congratulate Rear Admiral Patricio Carrasco, director of the Chilean Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA) and GEBCO Guiding Committee member on being awarded the 2015 Alexander Dalrymple Award by the UK Hydrographic Office ( UKHO). The award recognises

The GEBCO community is pleased to welcome the students just beginning the 2015/2016 class of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Programme. This 12-month course aims to train a new generation of scientists and hydrographers in ocean bathymetry and leads to a Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean

Students from the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO training programme recently attended the NOAA Nautical Chart Adequacy Workshop at the offices of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. The workshop was developed and hosted by the NOAA Office of Coast