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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

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