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" with the tagline "Systematically exploring the oceans."

Bridgit and Charles speak about the company's passion for seabed mapping and knowledge sharing, including the innovative Mosaic system that allows users to log-in for very high resolution seabed mapping of up to 25cm resolution in areas where the data exists.

Bedrock are also a very well respected builder of specialist marine autonomous systems. They are a vertically-integrated ocean exploration company developing proprietary robotics and software to quickly and cheaply explore the entirety of the Earth’s oceans on a scale not hitherto possible, offering subsea survey services (Hydro, Geo, UXO, etc.) as well as paired cloud & local software to effectively store, process and make sense of their client's subsea data.

For more information about Bedrock contact Charles at charles@bedrockocean.com or Bridgit at bridgit@bedrockocean.com

Towards the end of the podcast we mention the forthcoming opportunity to learn more about Seabed 2030 at two sessions we're organising on 11th March 2026 during Oceanology International - contact Steve at partnerships@seabed2030.org for more information.

With thanks to Emily Boddy for podcast music, intro & outro.

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Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
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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 and regenerative blue economy. You can contact Isabella for more information here.

WOC works hard to engage industry in our community including hosting regular Ocean Summits, a 'Blue Finance' series, and operational sustained ocean observing and bathymetry-measuing projects with ships of opportunity.

Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org and get in touch with podcast producer Steve Hall here.

Episode copyright 2025 Seabed 2030. With thanks to Emily Boddy for intro/outro narration and composing & performing the the music.

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
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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 Decade Corporate Data Group.

The public don't always realise that the vast majority of international internet traffic is carried on thousands of kilometres of fibre optic cable laid across the ocean floor, not bounced off satellites. As such, the industry is one of the few that conducts bathymetric measurements at global scale - albeit along narrow tracks - and so is an essential source of new, and legacy, data for Seabed 2030 & GEBCO. Indeed from the earliest days of GEBCO, bathymetry supplied by cable layers has formed an important source of data.

In this episode we also introduce our Head of External Relations, Pegah Souri - she has been associated with the project for six years and is a key person for ensuring that the outside world knows about our work.

In the second part of the podcast, Steve runs through the topics covered in his presentation to industry at SubOptic, and finishes with a preview of the imminent publication of the Seabed Mapping Special Edition of the Marine Technology Society and Society for Underwater Technology journal, Volume 59 Number 2.

Find out more about Seabed 2030 at www.seabed2030.org, contact the editor the podcast Steve Hall here, or Pegah Souri here.

Thank you for listening!

Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO