Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Monthly podcast about the Nippon Foundation - GEBCO 'Seabed 2030' Project - an international project to map the global seafloor by 2030, endorsed as a flagship UN Ocean Decade Programme.
Each month we bring news about the project, interviews with our ocean mapping community and updates about the technology and methods used.
Find out more at www.seabed2030.org
If you have ocean data you'd like to share please join our community - contact partnerships@seabed2030.org
Podcast edited by Steve Hall, music by Emily Boddy
Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
Episode 12 - Denis Hains - Hydrospatial Advocate
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.
He is a member of the Seabed 2030 Strategic Advisory Group, and although he retired from Canadian government service in 2018, he has remained a prolific & visible contributor to the ocean mapping community with many pro-bono professional advisory activities.
Denis was the recipient of the 2024 Sam Masry Award issued by the Canadian Hydrographic Association and is author or co-author of numerous papers and popular technical policy articles.
In this interview Denis talks about his career, about why he is passionate in his advocacy for 'Hydrospatial' as a term describing the work of this domain sector. Link here to an article explaining that 'Hydrospatial' is not about replacing 'hydrography', and here to find the LinkedIn Hydrospatial group.
Denis goes on to explain why Seabed 2030 matters as a mechanism for delivering the first global map of the ocean, and about the importance and enthusiasm of the next generation of ocean mappers in the Hydrospatial domain, and why education, experience, continuous learning - and most importantly professional networking, are vital for early career professionals to build their career.
Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast
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