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Multi-Dimensional, Multi-National, Multi-Faceted Hydrographic Training: The Nippon Foundation Gebco Training Program At The University Of New Hampshire, Dave Monahan, Clive Angwenyi, Hugo Montoro, Taisei Morishita, Abubakar Mustapha, Walter Reynoso Peralta, Shereen Sharma, Srinivas Karlapati

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Hydrographic training entered a new era when students arrived at the University of New Hampshire in August of 2004 to form the first class of the Nippon Foundation GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) training program. Born out of the need to replenish GEBCO’s aging human material, and of the desire to spread deep ocean mapping capabilities more widely throughout the world, the program attracted applications from 57 students in over thirty countries. The seven selected each had post graduate training and several years experience, but differed in that three were hydrographers, two geologists and two oceanographers. Classes planned …