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A two-part webinar series: ‘Mapping the Seafloor around Africa’ was held in February 2021. It was organized by the IOC-UNESCO Sub-Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States ( IOCAFRICA) and the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project’s Atlantic and Indian Oceans Regional Center. The

Access the latest edition of the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project's e-newsletter 'In-depth' - providing regular updates on the project developments. (923 KB) Join the Seabed 2030 mailing list to receive the e-newsletter and other project updates. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project

Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program 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

Vicki Ferrini, Chair of the GEBCO regional mapping Sub-Committee and Head of the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regional Center, has been selected from over 400 nominees as one of the “Explorers Club 50: Fifty People Changing the World the World Needs to Know

To celebrate the work of GEBCO and the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project we are creating a curated soon to be publicly available image archive for the press, our partners and the world! We want to champion your scientific achievements and reach more of the general public. We are interested

The GEBCO community welcomes the new Chair and Vice-Chair of the GEBCO Guiding Committee During GEBCO's recent Guiding Committee meeting, Mr. Evert Flier and Dr. Marzia Rovere were elected as Chair and Vice-Chair repectively. Evert Flier, IHO appointee from Norway, started his career in the Royal

From the 3rd of March 2021, the latest version of the GEBCO WMS will be accessible from the following service URL: https://www.gebco.net/data-products/gebco-web-services/web-map-servicem…? Please note that this service URL previously provided access to WMS layers based on the GEBCO_2014 Grid

The Nippon Foundation – GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project re-opens its survey on the value of seabed mapping. Seabed 2030 would like to take the opportunity to find out more about what you need from us, as well as how you can help us. We have re-opened our 'Wind in the Sails' survey, to help us get a better

The 2021 GEBCO Symposium will be held virtually from Paris, January 11 - 15, 2021. Hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM) Find out more about the sessions, apply to present and register to attend The

Seabed 2030 Press Release 3D-visualization showing the seafloor bathymetry of the previously uncharted Sherard Osborn Fjord, north Greenland. The red line illustrates the inflowing warmer water of Atlantic origin that is partly prevented from reaching Ryder Glacier by a bathymetric shoal. Credit