Bathymetric Charting: Mapping the Entire Ocean Floor by 2030
Presented by Ed Saade
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ABOUT
The Seabed 2030 initiative is being facilitated by the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) project in partnership with The Nippon Foundation (NF) as a means to inform global policy, improve sustainable use, and advance scientific research. Fugro is leading the marine survey industry in support of NF-GEBCO Seabed 2030, a global initiative to produce a definitive, high-resolution bathymetric map of the entire world’s ocean floor by the year 2030. Much less than 20 percent of the world’s oceans are mapped using modern survey techniques.
Edward J. (Ed) Saade is president of Fugro USA and regional director of Fugro’s Marine Division in the Americas. Appointed in 2014, he currently oversees a staff of 1300, operating from eleven primary offices located from Alaska to Brazil. He has over 40 years of surveying and engineering services experience and holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed Ph.D. courses and research in marine geophysics at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics. He is a California Professional Geophysicist and is an author/co-author of over 70 reports and studies related to seafloor geology and sub-bottom conditions.
This lecture series is generously sponsored by The Shelton Law Firm.