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Seabed 2030 enters new agreement with the Global Multi-Resolution Topography Synthesis Project

23 February 2021

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and the Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) Synthesis Project, operated at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, have paved the way for a future of collaborative working by entering into a Letter of Intent.

FIRST NEW SEAFLOOR MAP OF THE DECADE COLLECTED ON NEW YEAR’S EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS

30 December 2020

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA-- Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor has collected the first public seafloor data of the New Year, as part of a global effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030.

3D-visualization showing the seafloor bathymetry of the previously uncharted Sherard Osborn Fjord

Data from Uncharted Waters Provides Key Insights into Glacial Melting Processes

6 November 2020

New bathymetric and oceanographic data collected by an international team of ocean scientists provide important insights into the processes that are controlling the rapid loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet over the last four decades. The ground-breaking data, published in the Nature Journal Communications Earth & Environment, will be contributed to The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to have the definitive and complete map of the ocean seafloor by 2030.

Seabed 2030 Project announces new partnership with IIC Technologies

15 September 2020

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Seabed 2030 Project and IIC Technologies Ltd. The MOU establishes a new partnership between Seabed 2030 and IIC Technologies in recognition that both parties are working to increase our understanding of the global oceans.

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with REV Ocean

New Partnership announced between The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project and REV Ocean

1 September 2020

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with REV Ocean, to work together to advance understanding of the ocean floor and support the United Nation’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

SEA-KIT’s 12m Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) ‘Maxlimer’, image credit: Sea-Kit International

SEA-KIT USV successfully completes 22 days of offshore operations in the Atlantic Ocean

18 August 2020

Sea-Kit have recently been able to gather invaluable bathymetric data by kind permission of the mission sponsors. Members of the Seabed 2030 alumni team worked remotely on a 24/7 shift rota to; plan the data gathering mission, monitor the sonar, execute the data gathering and process the data.

New depth map over the Arctic Ocean

16 July 2020

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the Nature Journal Scientific Data.

Nearly a fifth of world's ocean floor now mapped

21 June 2020

On World Hydrography Day, The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, has announced the inclusion of 14.5 million square kilometres of new bathymetric data in the latest GEBCO Grid. Nearly a fifth of the world's entire ocean floor has now been mapped.

SOI Director of Operations Eric King and The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 former Acting Director Graham Allen sign the Seabed 2030 Memorandum of Understanding at the Royal Society in London. Credit: John Cobb/The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project.

Schmidt Ocean Institute Maps One Million Square Kilometers of Seafloor and Joins Monumental Mapping Initiative

9 December 2019

It has just been announced that the Schmidt Ocean Institute has come together with The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project for the joint signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to share all of its collected mapping data with the project.

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project announces new global initiatives in pursuit of mapping the entire ocean floor

22 October 2019

Three new global initiatives for mapping the world's entire ocean floor have been announced in London at a special conference organised by The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project.

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