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AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: An ambitious project to chart the seabed by 2030 could help countries prepare for tsunamis, protect marine habitats and monitor deep-sea mining. But the challenge is unprecedented. The race officially kicked off in 2017 at the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York City. When it began, around 6% of the ocean was mapped in accurate detail. On June 21, the global initiative -- known formally as the Nippon Foundation-Gebco Seabed 2030 Project -- released its latest edition: it has now mapped one-fifth of the seafloor. Few countries need accurate maps of the seabed more than Japan, an island nation whose future is uniquely intertwined with the ocean's, and it is the Nippon Foundation , a Japanese non-profit organization run on the gambling proceeds of motorboat racing, that is backing Seabed 2030 with $2m every year. [...] But the mapping is a truly global collaboration, public and free to use, divided among four regional centers. The Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany took the Southern Ocean; Stockholm University and the University of New Hampshire cover the North Pacific and Arctic; New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research are responsible for the South and West Pacific Ocean. That leaves the largest swath, the entire Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University -- Ferrini's team. The finished map itself is created by a fifth centre, based in the UK: the British Oceanographic Data Centre in Southampton. It collects the analyzed data from the four centers and compiles it in the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (Gebco). The data is in the public domain, free to use, adapt and commercially exploit.
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