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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

GEBCO is pleased to announce the release of its latest global terrain model at 30 arc-second intervals - the GEBCO_2014 Grid. Find out how to download the grid. The grid marks a significant update to the previous release, the GEBCO_08 Grid. Find out more from the PDF documentation that accompanies

Every year GEBCO hosts a Science Day consisting of oral and posters presentations on topics relating to ocean-floor mapping and its applications. This year's Science Day will be held as a session of the American Geophysical Union ( AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco, California, USA between 15

The Fifth Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (EIHC) was held in Monaco from 6 to 10 October 2014. One focus for this meeting was the topical issue of capacity building. In light of this, the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB) organised an exhibition on International

The GEBCO community is pleased to welcome the students just beginning the 2014/2015 class of the GEBCO/Nippon Foundation 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

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

Nippon Foundation/GEBCO scholar wins prize for best poster Hemanaden (Ravi) Runghen, a scholar of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Programme, has been awarded a best poster prize demonstrating the application of science, at the Challenger Society for Marine Science 2014 annual conference in

The GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) works to maintain and update a gazetteer of names of features on the seafloor. The gazetteer is available to view and download via the internet. The group meets once a year to consider submitted name proposals for newly-discovered seafloor

The GEBCO Bathymetric Science Day is held every year and consists of oral presentations and poster displays on topics relating to ocean-floor mapping and its applications. Attendance is open to all. This year, Science Day, will be held as a scientific session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

GEBCO has been funded by the Nippon Foundation of Japan to train a new generation of scientists and hydrographers in ocean bathymetry. The twelve-month course, leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry (PCOB), is held at the University of New Hampshire, USA. A summer hydrographic