The 2024 AGIC Education and Training Symposium will be held in Prescott, Arizona at the Prescott Resort and Conference Center on August 27 - August 30, 2024. Registration is now open, with early bird registration rates available until July 26th. Visit the symposium website for registration details and other information.
When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was launched in 2017, only 6% of the global ocean bottom had been surveyed to resolutions below 1 km. The project recently announced that high resolution bathymetry data are now available for 19% of the ocean floor, which is up from 15% in just the last year. The higher resolution data will help improve models that forcast climate change, improve fisheries and conservation efforts or sea life, as well as improve commercial interests, such as laying or pipelines and cables