For our first podcast of 2026 we feature an interview with David Bautista of Tcarta, based out of their St John's Newfoundland office where they work closley with the staff of Memorial University, another valued Seabed 2030 Partner.

Contact David at david@tcarta.com and see the Tcarta website here.

David is originally from Colombia, and finds the contrast ith Newfoundland quite noticeable! In the interview he taks about how satellite derived bathymetry (SBD) can play an important role in ocean mapping over shallow, clear, waters where the orbiting sensors can see the seabed well enough to make good estimates of bathymetry. It doesn't work much beyond a few tens of metres depth or in turbid waters, but can add valuable data to the global grid where the conditions are right.

Their homepage describes TCarta's service as "Remote Satellite-Based Hydrospatial Technologies, leveraging a long history of providing bathymetric data and seafloor mapping for marine applications, TCarta offers inland, coastal and offshore hydrospatial and geospatial mapping systems and solutions for geospatial remote sensing intelligence, coastal engineering, environmental and coastal monitoring, and global mapping applications.

Our dedicated team of GIS professionals, hydrographers, imagery analysts, and developers, along with our ecosystem of partner companies, work together to provide full-scope solutions to real world topics in a variety of applications – from engineering and exploration, to navigation and environmental monitoring, and Geospatial Intelligence. We have worked in the coastal waters throughout the globe and with large scale surveying initiatives in the Pacific, Caribbean and Indian Oceans and specific focus on remote island nations and challenging environments in the Middle East and Arctic regions."

Find out more about Seabed 2030 here, and contact podast producer Steve Hall as partnerships@seabed2030.org

Please note that in March we will be attending Economist World Ocean Summit in Montreal, and Oceanology International in London - with a special set of talks from our partners on 11th March. Hopefully see some of our listeners there!

Copyright Seabed 2030 2026, Music by Emily Boddy.

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

Copyright 2025 Seabed 2030

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

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
Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO