For episode 9 of the Seabed 2030 podcast we've used a recording made of the session hosted by the International Hydrographic Organisation during the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona in April. The session was called "The Seabed Data we need for the Ocean We Want" and started with three keynotes moderated by Claire Jolly of OECD - Dr Mathias Jonas, IHO Secretary General; Mr Mitsuyuki Unno, Executive Director of the Nippon Foundation; Professor Gideon Henderson, Chief Scientific Adviser of DEFRA, UK; followed by a panel session moderated by Sam Harper of IHO consisting of lawyer Dr Virginie Tassom Campanella; Mr Virgil Zetterlind the Director of 'Protected Seas'; Mr Pierre Bahurel of MERCATOR; and Dr Jyotika Virmani of the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
Unfortunately due to a technical issue the keynote by Dr Jonas failed to record but all of the others are on this podcast, but without the Q&A session as permission could not be sought from members of the audience.
We hope you find this session of interest - thank you for listening!
Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org
Contact podcast producer Steve Hall at partnerships@seabed2030.org
Music & opening/closing narration by Emily Boddy
Seashore wave recordings from Aberavon Beach, Wales

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
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For our 8th episode Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall talks to colleague Shereen Sharma, Head of Seabed 2030 Engagement and Development, who is based in Perth, Australia.
Shereen talks about her career in private sector hydrographic survey before joining Seabed 2030, explains her role including her involvement in the challenging TESMaP hydrographic survey in the aftermath of the 2022 Hunga Tonga - Huna Ha'apai volcanic eruption, which included the use of Sea-Kit's Maxlimer USV controlled from the other side of the planet, and her work with Nippon Foundation GEBCO Alumni.
Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org & if you'd like to be featured on the podcast or have feedback, please contact producer Steve Hall.
Many thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast music & intro, background beach sounds recorded by Steve Hall at Aberavon Beach, South Wales.

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
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For our 7th episode, March 2024, Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews acclaimed sailor Lisa Blair. On her yacht "Climate Action Now" Lisa has broken records including the solo, non-stop, and unassisted around Antarctica (2022); solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia (2018); and in 2019 with co-skipper Jackie Parry becoming the first double-handed female team to finish in the history of the gruelling Sydney-Hobart race.
However Lisa is not only an ocean adventurer - citizen science is equally important as she carries a Seabed 2030 data logger so that she can contribute new bathymetric data obtained when sailing in places no survey ships have visited, as well as a comprehensive 'micro-lab at sea' in the forward sail locker that measures essential oceanographic parameters such as temperature and salinity. Lisa takes microplastic samples, and launches research instrumentation such as Argo floats as she travels the gobal ocean.
An inspiring human being with the motto "Just Do - Because the World is Changed by Doers" ..
By the time this episode goes live, Lisa is scheduled to be taking part in a record attempt between Sydney and New Zealand. Follow Lisa on Instagram at @lisablairsailstheworld and her website is at https://lisablairsailstheworld.com
We'll be back in April for episode 8. In the meantime we'll be present at the Economist World Ocean Summit, Lisbon and Oceanology International, London in mid-March with a session about Seabed 2030 in the Ocean Futures Theatre at Excel on 13th March from 1215-1315hrs.
Find out more abour Seabed 2030 at seabed2030.org, any questions, comments or requests to be featured contact producer Steve Hall.
Thanks to Emily Boddy for the music. Created on Garageband on a Mac.

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
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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 partnerships@seabed2030.org 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
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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
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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 info@orangeforcemarine.com
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
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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 brian.connon@saildrone.com
Email Anna Hendi via Anna.Hendi@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Podcast produced by Steve Hall, head of parterships Seabed 2030 email partnerships@seabed2030.org - 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