General news

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

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

The IOBC project is working to assemble, collate, archive and publish all publically-available bathymetric data for the Indian Ocean region with the aim of producing a new bathymetric map and grid of the area (north of 60°S). The project is being undertaken by a combination of GEBCO/Nippon

The GEBCO world map shows the shape and depth of the global ocean floor as a shaded relief map. The latest release of the map is available to download in PDF and GeoTiff forms. The map image (72°N - 72°S) is now included in Google's Maps Gallery for display in Google Earth. This is the third release

GEBCO is pleased to announce that Captain Patricio Carrasco (Director, Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA)) has been appointed as a new International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) representative to the Joint IHO-IOC Guiding Committee for GEBCO. We welcome Captain

he GEBCO world map shows the shape and depth of the global ocean floor as a shaded relief map. A new release of the map is now available. Find out how to download a digital copy in PDF and GeoTiff forms. This is the third release of the map and now includes the names of features on the sea floor

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 Ocean Bathymetry (PCOB), has been held at the University of New Hampshire, USA, since 2004

At the recent GEBCO meetings hosted by the Instituto di Scienze Marine ( ISMAR) in Venice, Italy there were a number of changes to the membership of and posts held in some of GEBCO's Committees and Working Groups. Find out more about the leadership changes to these groups. GEBCO's Guiding Committee