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.

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Seabed 2030 Project • (You can check out their interactive map here) GEBCO Grid2024 Seabed 2030 ProgressPoint Nemo • Book & Podcast Recommendations: • The Deepest Map by Laura Trethewey ( Amazon Affiliate • ) Seabed 2030 PodcastTimestamps (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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