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.

Read the latest edition of 'In-depth' - our e-newsletter

Read the latest edition of Seabed 2030's e-newsletter here.

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Read the latest edition of 'In-depth' - our e-newsletter

9 January 2023

Read the latest edition of Seabed 2030's e-newsletter.

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PhD position at Alfred Wegener Institute

29 November 2022

PhD position in "ecosystem studies and habitat mapping based on hydroacoustic and seabed imagery"

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COP27 Side Event: Seabed 2030 - Mapping for People and Planet

4 November 2022

Join us for the Seabed 2030 Side Event at COP27, Sharm-el-Sheikh, where a diverse panel of experts will discuss how seabed mapping data is essential in addressing climate change and for safeguarding the future of our planet.

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Philippines joins effort to map entire ocean floor in new partnership with Seabed 2030

25 October 2022

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) of the Philippines. The two parties will work together to further global understanding of ocean science.

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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).