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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

The 10th GEBCO Science Day will be hosted by the Royal Malaysian Navy and PETRONAS at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 5th October 2015. GEBCO Science Day is held every year as part of GEBCO's meetings. We announce a call for papers on topics related to ocean mapping and

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. In 2014, the Ninth GEBCO Science Day was held on 17th December as a session of the American Geophysical

Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry at the University of New Hampshire, USA (2015-2016) The Nippon Foundation of Japan has provided funding for GEBCO to train a new generation of scientists and hydrographers in ocean bathymetry. The 12-month course, leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in

GEBCO makes available global bathymetric grids for the world's oceans. Our latest data set, the GEBCO_2014 Grid, was released in December 2014 and is a global terrain model at 30 arc-second intervals. GEBCO's grids can be downloaded from the internet, on behalf of GEBCO from the British

Students on the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO training programme have recently returned from a fact-finding visit to the US National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, Colorado, USA. This has become an annual visit for students on the course and allows them to find out about the work of NGDC in