Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73
Description
Jamie McMichael-Phillips is the Director of the Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to map all of the world's oceans, by 2030. For context, in 2024, we’re at 26.1%. This is conversation is about why, how we get to 100% and why it’s important in the first place.
Sponsor: SatCamp
SatCamp is a different kind of conference, from October 1st to October 3rd 2024, in Boulder Colorado
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- Seabed 2030 Project (You can check out their interactive map here)
- GEBCO Grid
- 2024 Seabed 2030 Progress
- Point Nemo
- Book & Podcast Recommendations:
- The Deepest Map by Laura Trethewey (Amazon Affiliate)
- Seabed 2030 Podcast
Timestamps
(00:00 ) - Intro
(01:04 ) - Sponsor: SatCamp
(02:55 ) - Jamie Describes Himself
(03:53 ) - State of Ocean mapping in 2024
(06:19 ) - Difficulties with mapping the ocean
(08:22 ) - Why map the seabed?
(10:24 ) - What does mapping the seabed actually mean?
(15:01 ) - Comparing Land & Sea mapping
(18:55 ) - Seabed 2030 is a policy project
(20:42 ) - Incentives to map the oceans
(24:05 ) - If we've only mapped ~25%, what does the 75% other look like?
(27:49 ) - What are the coarse measurements for the ocean right now?
(29:31 ) - How we actually map the seabed
(33:14 ) - Patches of unmapped areas of the ocean
(35:38 ) - Getting there by 2030
(38:21 ) - How much has already been mapped?
(43:00 ) - Maps as Human Knowledge
(45:27 ) - Jamie's most anticipated, yet unmapped, area
(48:03 ) - Public Engagement
(53:01 ) - Book/podcast Recommendations
(55:04 ) - Support the podcast on Patreon
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