2 Sep 2024 01:10
Jamie McMichael-Phillips: How We're Planning to Map All our Oceans by 2030 - #MBM73
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: SatCampSatCamp 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
