{"id":1825056,"date":"2024-01-19T09:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1825056"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:53:44","slug":"cartographically-speaking-water-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/01\/cartographically-speaking-water-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cartographically Speaking, Water Sucks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps.\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cz24meZACsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Last October, on her <em>Huge If True<\/em> YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cz24meZACsY\">Cleo Abram explored the state of deep ocean mapping<\/a>, why it lags behind our mapping of, say, Mars, and what\u2019s being done to chart the ocean floor at a higher resolution than currently exists (e.g. the <a href=\"https:\/\/seabed2030.org\">Seabed 2030<\/a> project). All told this is a good and enthusiastic primer for the relatively uninitiated (though I do have to quibble with the statement that Marie Tharp\u2019s maps have \u201clargely been forgotten by history,\u201d but then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/tag\/marie-tharp\/\">I\u2019ve seen rather a lot about Marie Tharp\u2019s maps<\/a> and am a bit of an outlier).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, on her Huge If True YouTube channel, Cleo Abram explored the state of deep ocean mapping, why it lags behind our mapping of, say, Mars, and what\u2019s being done to chart the ocean&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/01\/cartographically-speaking-water-sucks\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[591,430],"class_list":["post-1825056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","tag-marie-tharp","tag-seafloor","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789071,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/07\/marie-tharp-at-100\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":0},"title":"Marie Tharp at 100","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"July 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of pioneering ocean cartographer Marie Tharp, whose seafloor maps provided evidence of continental drift. Columbia University\u2019s Earth Institute is marking the event with blog posts, interviews, workshops and other social media and multimedia activity. See, for example, this overview of her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Oceans&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ocean-speaks-135x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1786589,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/soundings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":1},"title":"Soundings","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 November 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been meaning to read Soundings, Hali Felt\u2019s biography of Marie Tharp, since it came out in 2012. Since then I've seen a flurry of articles, interviews, videos and other tributes concerning Tharp, whose reputation, which grew during her lifetime, continues to grow in the 12 years since her death\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Book Reviews&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Book Reviews","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/book-reviews\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/soundings-hc-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1283,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/women-in-cartography-continued\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":2},"title":"Women in Cartography (Continued)","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"On the Library of Congress's map blog, a post about the women cartographers employed by the military and government during World War II\u2014the so-called \"Military Mapping Maidens.\" The Guardian has a brief item on ocean mapper Marie Tharp. CityLab's Laura Bliss presents\u00a0a selection of maps by women mapmakers like Mary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"wac-cartographer","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wac-cartographer-191x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1788446,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/history-of-epidemic-mapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":3},"title":"History of Epidemic Mapping","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 February 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"CityLab\u2019s Marie Patino looks at some of the maps tracking the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and from there pivots to some of the ways we\u2019ve tracked disease outbreaks and epidemics in the past. Examples can be found as far back as the 17th century\u2014long before John Snow\u2019s cholera map,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1789983,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/01\/more-on-marie-tharp\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":4},"title":"More on Marie Tharp","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 January 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"A new article on the life and career of Marie Tharp, written by our friend Betsy Mason, was published by Science News earlier this month. Plenty has been written about Tharp, whose work mapping the ocean floor helped provide the evidence for continental drift: numerous articles, a 2012 biography, two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Oceans&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785271,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/marie-tharp-on-the-bbc-world-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825056,"position":5},"title":"Marie Tharp on the BBC World Service","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Still another profile of ocean cartographer Marie Tharp, this time from the BBC World Service's\u00a0Witness program: it's a nine-minute audio clip called \"Mapping the Ocean's Secrets.\" [Osher] On the WMS Facebook group, Bert Johnson had this to say about this latest profile: \"Hers is a standout story, but I wish\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/geology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/tharp-heezen-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825060,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825056\/revisions\/1825060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}