The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project

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.

News & media resources

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

Calling all Hydrographic and Oceanographic Authorities

Opportunity to contribute to key study. Closes 15th April 2023 (extended from 31st March 2023 by popular demand).

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Pauline Weatherall, member of Seabed 2030’s Global Center, awarded MBE

8 March 2023

We are delighted to celebrate the work of Pauline Weatherall - a data scientist at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and member of Seabed 2030’s Global Data Center - who earlier this year was awarded an MBE for her services to bathymetry.

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Seabed 2030 and Orange Force Marine announce new partnership in support of citizen science

27 February 2023

A new partnership has been announced between The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and Orange Force Marine Ltd., a specialised commercial marine services company providing crowdsourced bathymetry solutions in support of the complete mapping of the ocean floor.

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Calling all Hydrographic and Oceanographic Authorities

17 February 2023

Opportunity to contribute to key study. Closes 15th April 2023 (extended from 31st March 2023 by popular demand).

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Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry at the University of New Hampshire, USA (2023-2024)

9 February 2023

Applications are now being sought for the 20th year of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry training program, to begin late August 2023.

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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.

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.

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

Some of our People

Jamie McMichael-Phillips

Director of the Seabed 2030 Project

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Martin Jakobsson

Co-head of the Arctic & North Pacific Regional Center; Stockholm University, Sweden.

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Helen Snaith

Head of the Global Center; NOC, UK.

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Larry Mayer

Co-Head of the Arctic and North Pacific Regional Center; CCOM, UNH, USA.

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Vicki Ferrini

Head of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regional Center; LDEO, Columbia University, USA

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Kevin Mackay

Head of the South and West Pacific Regional Center; NIWA, New Zealand

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Boris Dorschel

Head of the Southern Ocean Regional Center; AWI, Germany

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Mitsuyuki Unno

Executive Director, The Nippon Foundation

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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).