For Seabed 2030 podcast episode 6, Head of Partnerships Steve Hall speaks to Dr Vicki Ferrini, Head of our Atlantic & Indian Ocean Center - a key person in the Seabed 2030 team.
Vicki talks about her research background, the life-changing experience of diving on board the famous submersible Alvin, and how mapping the ocean floor informs how we manage ocean space, understand the earth-ocean system better, and make better informed decisions. 
She also speaks about her passion for encouraging diversity and equality in ocean science, and about engaging with industry as we strive to fill-in the gaps of the global map of the seafloor. 

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
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Episode 5 - January 2024. In this edition Head of Partnerships Steve Hall first talks to Jamie McMichael-Phillips, Project Director of Seabed 2030. Jamie wishes listeners Happy New Year, and describes how Seabed 2030 will take forward our workplan in 2024, including our presence at the Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona scheduled for April.
Second interview is with Louis Demargne, who is on Secondment from our industry partner Fugro to the Decade Coordination Unit of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Louis explains the role of the DCU, how he's been tasked to grow links with industry so that the global ocean science community can benefit from access to the data that industry gathers at sea, and how the DCU is working with Seabed 2030 to facilitate access to seabed mapping data that has hitherto often remained locked away as 'commercial in confidence'.

We'll be back in February 2024 for episode 6 - contact Steve Hall [email protected] with questions, feedback or offers to be featured on a future episode.  Music and intro/outro narration by Emily Boddy.
Find out more about the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project at www.seabed2030.org 
Copyright Seabed 2030, 2024 

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO

Episode 4 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast features 3 interviews - first up Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Professor Larry Mayer during the 5th Arctic-Antarctic & North Pacific Mapping Meeting that took place in Bremen, Germany, 27-29 November 2023.
Larry is somewhat of a legend in the seabed mapping community and is a Professor and Founding Director of the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire. See https://seabed2030.org/people/larry-mayer/ for more about him. In this short interview recorded in a corridor during a coffee break (apologies for noisy background!) Larry talks about Seabed 2030, the new technologies coming to ocean mapping, and about his recent survey work in the North Pacific.
Next up Steve has taken the train straight from Bremen down to Brussels to attend the EMODnet Open Conference where he speaks to EMODnet Director Dr Kate Larkin about what EMODnet is, and how the community works with Seabed 2030 to help deliver the global ocean map.
Third section is a repost of the HMS Challenger Legacy webinar that took place in October, where Peter Tuddenham and Hermione Cockburn interview Steve and author Laura Trethewey about the the ongoing legacy of the HMS Challenger expedition that was taking place 150 years ago, and paved the way for the science of oceanography - and seabed mapping!
Finally Steve gives an overview of Seabed 2030's activities during COP28, where several of our team and supporters from industry, governments and academia were present to argue the case for seabed mapping.
We hope you enjoy this episode of the Podcast and will join us again in 2024, Episode 6 will go live by mid-January. 

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO

Episode 3, November 2023, features an interview with Derek Niles & Colin Thomson of Seabed 2030 industry partner Orange Force Marine on their data pipeline solutions "from ping to cloud".
Find out more about Orange Force Marine at https://www.orangeforcemarine.com/ and contact them via [email protected]
For more on Seabed 2030 see our website at https://seabed2030.org/
To get in touch about this podcast, submit questions or ask to be featured on a future episode contact Steve Hall
Copyright 2023 Seabed 2030
Produced & Edited by Steve Hall, Music & Introduction by Emily Boddy 
*This is a revised version of original Podcast 3, shortened to keep it under 30 minutes. 

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO

Episode 2 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast features two interviews by Steve Hall -
1m 10s Brian Connon, Vice President of Ocean Mapping, Saildrone
13m 51s An interview with Anna Hendi of DFO Canada and her students about a UN Ocean Decade-endorsed Seabed 2030 student project to develop automated identification of underwater features in bathymetry data. See https://oceandecade.org/actions/detection-of-undersea-features/
Ends at 57m 40s
Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org
Email Brian Connon via [email protected]
Email Anna Hendi via [email protected]
Podcast produced by Steve Hall, head of parterships Seabed 2030 email [email protected] - contact Steve if you'd like to feature on a future episode or have questions about content.  
New episodes online every month. 

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO

In our first episode Head of Partnerships Steve Hall introduces Seabed 2030 with a summary of the history of mapping the ocean floor from earliest times to the present day. At 11m 12s Steve introduces this month's guest, David Millar of Fugro. David speaks about why Fugro, a major private sector seabed survey company, is supporting Seabed 2030 and at 20m 30s David also introduces the new UN Ocean Decade Corporate Data Group, at 29m 40s he speaks about encouraging the public to value ocean mapping, and at 35m 10s speaks on future developments for Fugro seabed mapping.
Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org
Find out more about GEBCO at https://www.gebco.net/
Contact Steve Hall at [email protected]
Contact David Millar at [email protected]
Want to be on a future podcast? Email Steve Hall
Please submit your questions to be answered in the next episode to Steve or to [email protected]
Episode 2 goes live Monday 2nd October 2023

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO