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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

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

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