The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is formally endorsed as a Decade Action of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

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Seabed 2030's Regional and Global Centers

Regional & Global Centers

Seabed 2030 has four Regional Centers who compile bathymetry data for their areas and a Global Center that produces the global GEBCO grid.

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Find out how to get involved in the project and contribute to this international effort to map the global seafloor.

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News & media resources

Access our latest news items, videos, press releases and documents to find out more about GEBCO and Seabed 2030.

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Steve Hall speaking at UNOC2022
Seabed 2030 Spotlight

Full recording of our official UNOC2022 Side Event now available

Watch the full-length recording of our high-level panel session, co-moderated by Kilaparti Ramakrishna (Senior Advisor on Ocean and Climate Policy WHOI, US) and Dawn Wright (Esri, US), which looked at the benefits of ocean mapping from a global perspective, and explored how mapping data is essential to supporting the UN SDG 14 and Decade outcomes.

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Seabed 2030 enters new partnership with Terradepth in a collaboration that will boost project’s crowdsourcing initiatives

13 July 2022
Terradepth and The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project have announced a new partnership which will utilize Terradepth's geospatial data portal known as Absolute Ocean. Seabed 2030 will use Absolute Ocean as a data visualization and exploration tool as part of the international effort to map the entire ocean floor. The announcement was made on the heels of the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Nippon Foundation GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project

Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation of Japan and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all.

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Events

EMODnet Open Conference

The online EMODnet Open Conference (14-16 June 2021) - connecting across stalkeholders communities to showcase current EMODnet data, data products and services, and look ahead to co-design EMODnet's next phase to 2030 and beyond.

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UN World Ocean Day 2021

United Nations World Oceans Day

The second fully virtual celebration of United Nations World Oceans Day (WOD) will highlight the theme The Ocean: Life and Livehoods. This year’s annual event will shed light on the wonder of the ocean and how it is our life source, supporting humanity and every other organism on Earth. 

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IOC Assembly-31 Webinar

IOC Assembly-31 Thematic Webinar

IOC Assembly-31 Thematic Webinar: Building partnerships for Ocean Mapping - the role of GEBCO and The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project

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Some of our People

Martin Jakobsson, Center Co-Head for the Seabed 2030 Arctic and North Pacific Regional Center

Martin Jakobsson

Co-head of the Arctic & North Pacific Regional Center; Stockholm University, Sweden.
Larry Mayer, Center Co-Head for the Seabed 2030 Arctic and North Pacific Ocean Regional Center

Larry Mayer

Co-Head of the Arctic and North Pacific Regional Center; CCOM, UNH, USA.
Vicki Ferrini, Head of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regional Center; LDEO, Columbia University, USA

Vicki Ferrini

Head of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regional Center; LDEO, Columbia University, USA
Kevin Mackay, Head of the South and West Pacific Regional Center; NIWA, New Zealand

Kevin Mackay

Head of the South and West Pacific Regional Center; NIWA, New Zealand
Boris Dorschel, Head of the Southern Ocean Regional Center; AWI, Germany

Boris Dorschel

Head of the Southern Ocean Regional Center; AWI, Germany
Shin Tani, Chair GEBCO Guiding Committee, Japan

Shin Tani

Immediate past Chair of the GEBCO Guiding Committee, Japan
Rochelle Wigley, Director, Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Training Programme, UNH, USA

Rochelle Wigley

Director, Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Training Programme, UNH, USA
Jennifer Jencks

Jennifer Jencks

Jennifer Jencks is the Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, which is hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).