{"id":2979,"date":"2016-10-03T18:44:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:19:28","slug":"mapping-the-ocean-floor-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/mapping-the-ocean-floor-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Ocean Floor by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0looks at efforts<\/a> by a group of scientists and mariners to map most of the ocean floor by the year 2030. The objective was endorsed<\/a> by a meeting of GEBCO<\/a>, the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans, last June. The scale\u00a0of the project is vast:<\/p>\n

To date, more than 85 percent of the seafloor has not been mapped using modern methods. Since 70 percent of the Earth is covered in oceans, this means that we quite literally don\u2019t know our own planet. \u201cWe know the surface of Mars better than we do the seafloor,\u201d says\u00a0Martin Jakobsson<\/a>, a researcher at Stockholm University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Leventhal<\/a>\/MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsweek\u00a0looks at efforts by a group of scientists and mariners to map most of the ocean floor by the year 2030. The objective was endorsed by a meeting of GEBCO, the General Bathymetric Chart of… 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":[431,658,430],"class_list":["post-2979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","tag-bathymetry","tag-gebco","tag-seafloor","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1843002,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/06\/27-3-of-the-ocean-floor-has-now-been-mapped\/","url_meta":{"origin":2979,"position":0},"title":"27.3% of the Ocean Floor Has Now Been Mapped","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 June 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Seabed 2030 The Seabed 2030 project announced on Saturday that \u201c27.3% of the world\u2019s ocean floor has now been mapped to modern standards. 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