Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast

For our World Ocean Day June 2026 extra-length episode, Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Dr Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute, better known as ESRI , and a leading exponent of how we understand data and share our discoveries for the greater good.  Dawn is a member of the Strategic Advisory Group for Seabed 2030 and holds many other h...

Chesapeake Technology is one of our newest MoU partners and in Episode 22 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast, Head of Partnerships Stephen Hall interviews company President Evan Reinsberg who you can contact directly via the link here  Chesapeake Technology is a leader in ocean geophysical and seafloor mapping software, serving defense, government, academic, and commercial marine survey customers worldwid...

For our first podcast of 2026 we feature an interview with David Bautista of Tcarta, based out of their St John's Newfoundland office where they work closley with the staff of Memorial University, another valued Seabed 2030 Partner.  Contact David at david@tcarta.com and see the Tcarta website here .  David is originally from Colombia, and finds the contrast ith Newfoundland quite noticeable!...

For our December 2025 episode, Head of Partnerships Steve Hall speaks to Bridgit Boulahanis , Director of Data & Solutions, and Charles Chiau CEO, CTO & co-founder of Bedrock Ocean Exploration - one of the very first industry Partners to join forces with Seabed 2030 back in 2020, a USA-based compay that "develops technology to rethink the way the world collects and uses seafloor data&...

For our 19th episode our Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Isabella Glušauskaite of the World Ocean Council, a long-standing supporter of Seabed 2030 who play an important role in bringing an industry contribution into ocean science. The World Ocean Council (WOC) is the international alliance of ocean business and innovation leadership, working together to build a thriving, sustainable an...

For Podcast 18, August 2025, Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall brings an update from our recent attendance at SubOptic 2025 , a conference and trade show of the global subsea cables industry. We were invited by Alcatel Submarine Networks , one of the big three subsea cables companies, owned by the French state and Nokia. Alcatel are enthusiastic contributers to the work of the UN Ocean D...

In this episode Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall reports on the UN Ocean Conference that was held in Nice in June 2025, with the main podcast going through a summary of what happened during the event, and then a 20 minute appendix where he reads through the Nice Ocean Action Plan .  Too much happened in the many side events to cover all aspects, so we've focused on the parts where...

For episode 16 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast, recorded in April 2025, Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall speaks to David Parker , who is Head of Hydrographic Programmes at the UK Hydrographic Office, Chair of the International Hydrographic Office Hydrographic Surveys Working Group, and one of the founding senior team for the UK Centre for Seabed Mapping.  David talks about his career, his ro...

Podcast 15, March 2025 - apologies for delay with this one - we've all been busy with a series of workshops and conferences, spreading the word about why seabed mapping matters and signing up new partners. This episode focuses on one of those meetings, the Economist World Ocean Summit held in Tokyo on 12th & 13th March 2025. Seabed 2030 and GEBCO representatives were present, with the Nip...

For the first episode of 2025 Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Matthew Zimmerman, CEO and co-founder of FarSounder, based in Rhode Island USA, & one of our industry partners since Year 4 of the Project. FarSounder specialise in products such as 3D forward-looking sonars that don't only look down to map the seabed, but also scan forwards to enable users to avoid whale...

Episode 13 is our longest episode to date and features interviews recorded during the 6th Pacific Ocean Mapping Meeting that took place in Fiji in November 2024.  With some 90 participants from 27 nations, the meeting was a rare opportunity for mappers, marine managers, industry representatives and members of Seabed 2030's supporting organisations to meet face to face, and learn first hand fr...

For episode 12 of the Seabed 2030 podcast, Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Denis Hains (see LinkedIn profile) Hydrospatial Global Influencer, President and CEO of H2i .  Denis is a long-standing champion for ocean mapping, having served in a series of international influential roles including as Hydrographer General of Canada & Director General of the Canadian Hydrographic Service....

For episode 11 of the Seabed 2030 podcast, head of partnerships Steve Hall interviews David Vincentelli of French manufacturer Exail - a high-tech industrial group specialising in cutting-edge robotics, maritime, navigation, aerospace and photonics technologies. With a first-rate reputation for their innovative products, Exail now manufacturer a well-regarded marine autonomous survey platform, the...

Episode 10 of the Seabed 2030 podcast features Head of Partnerships Steve Hall talking on the theme of "Why do we map the Ocean?" - he looks at the history of human seafaring, the gradual evolution of mapping technologies, the challenges and uses of seabed mapping, ending with a section on how mapping fits into the context of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Fi...

For episode 9 of the Seabed 2030 podcast we've used a recording made of the session hosted by the International Hydrographic Organisation during the UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona in April. The session was called "The Seabed Data we need for the Ocean We Want" and started with three keynotes moderated by Claire Jolly of OECD - Dr Mathias Jonas, IHO Secretary General; Mr Mit...

For our 8th episode Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall talks to colleague Shereen Sharma , Head of Seabed 2030 Engagement and Development, who is based in Perth, Australia. Shereen talks about her career in private sector hydrographic survey before joining Seabed 2030, explains her role including her involvement in the challenging TESMaP hydrographic survey in the aftermath of the 2022 Hu...

For our 7th episode, March 2024, Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews acclaimed sailor Lisa Blair . On her yacht "Climate Action Now" Lisa has broken records including the solo, non-stop, and unassisted around Antarctica (2022); solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia (2018); and in 2019 with co-skipper Jackie Parry becoming the first double-handed female team to...

For Seabed 2030 podcast episode 6, Head of Partnerships Steve Hall speaks to Dr Vicki Ferrini, Head of our Atlantic & Indian Ocean Center - a key person in the Seabed 2030 team. Vicki talks about her research background, the life-changing experience of diving on board the famous submersible Alvin, and how mapping the ocean floor informs how we manage ocean space, understand the earth-ocean sys...

Episode 5 - January 2024. In this edition Head of Partnerships Steve Hall first talks to Jamie McMichael-Phillips, Project Director of Seabed 2030 . Jamie wishes listeners Happy New Year, and describes how Seabed 2030 will take forward our workplan in 2024, including our presence at the Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona scheduled for April. Second interview is with Louis Demargne, who is on Sec...

Episode 4 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast features 3 interviews - first up Seabed 2030 Head of Partnerships Steve Hall interviews Professor Larry Mayer during the 5th Arctic-Antarctic & North Pacific Mapping Meeting that took place in Bremen, Germany, 27-29 November 2023. Larry is somewhat of a legend in the seabed mapping community and is a Professor and Founding Director of the School of Marine S...

Episode 3, November 2023, features an interview with Derek Niles & Colin Thomson of Seabed 2030 industry partner Orange Force Marine on their data pipeline solutions " from ping to cloud ". Find out more about Orange Force Marine at https://www.orangeforcemarine.com/ and contact them via info@orangeforcemarine.com For more on Seabed 2030 see our website at https://seabed2030.org/ To...

Episode 2 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast features two interviews by Steve Hall - 1m 10s Brian Connon , Vice President of Ocean Mapping, Saildrone 13m 51s An interview with Anna Hendi of DFO Canada and her students about a UN Ocean Decade-endorsed Seabed 2030 student project to develop automated identification of underwater features in bathymetry data. See https://oceandecade.org/actions/detection-of-u...

In our first episode Head of Partnerships Steve Hall introduces Seabed 2030 with a summary of the history of mapping the ocean floor from earliest times to the present day. At 11m 12s Steve introduces this month's guest, David Millar of Fugro. David speaks about why Fugro, a major private sector seabed survey company, is supporting Seabed 2030 and at 20m 30s David also introduces the new UN O...