The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is formally endorsed as a Decade Action of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
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.
Get involved
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.
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.
Latest news
Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regional Mapping Community Meeting 2022
Seabed 2030 enters new partnership with Terradepth in a collaboration that will boost project’s crowdsourcing initiatives
Full recording of our official UNOC2022 Side Event now available
Seabed 2030 announces increase in ocean data equating to the size of Europe and major new partnership at UN Ocean Conference
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.
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
Martin Jakobsson
Helen Snaith
Larry Mayer
Vicki Ferrini
Kevin Mackay
Boris Dorschel
Mitsuyuki Unno
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).
Evert Flier
Chair of the GEBCO Guiding Committee
Norwegian Mapping Authority, Norway
Jennifer Cheveaux
Marzia Rovere
Shereen Sharma
Steve Hall
