Jamie McMichael-Phillips, Seabed 2030 Project Director, said: The Project now has 133 official partners, contributors and supporters – and continues to pursue new collaborations in data collection and technical innovation. The effort to complete the map of the world’s oceans has gathered significant momentum since its launch, with Seabed 2030 rallying over 100 international organisations in support. When Seabed 2030 was launched in 2017, only six per cent of the oceans had been mapped to modern standards. They went on together, refining and perfecting their work and contributing t only to humanity's vision of the ocean floor, but to the way subsequent generations would view the Earth as a whole.With an imagination as intuitive as Marie's, brilliant young writer Hali Felt brings to vivid life the story of the pioneering scientist whose work became the basis for the work of others scientists for generations to come.Coverage of the seabed has risen from 15 per cent to 19 per cent in the last year. Partners in work and in many ways, partners in life, Marie and Bruce were devoted to one ather as they rose to greater and greater prominence in the scientific community, only to be envied and finally dismissed by their beloved institute.
WHO MAPPED OUT THE OCEAN FLOOR IN 1952 PROFESSIONAL
The marriage of artistry and science behind her analysis of this dry data gave birth to a major work: the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor, which laid the groundwork for proving the then-controversial theory of continental drift.When combined, Marie's scientific kwledge, her eye for detail and her skill as an artist revealed t a vast empty plane, but an entire world of mountains and volcaes, ridges and rifts, and a gateway to the past that allowed scientists the means to imagine how the continents and the oceans had been created over time.Just as Marie dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to what became the Lamont Geological Observatory, engaged in the task of mapping every ocean on Earth, she dedicated her personal life to her great friendship with her co-worker, Bruce Heezen. Through sheer willpower and obstinacy, Marie was given the job of interpreting the soundings (records of sonar pings measuring the ocean's depths) brought back from the ocean-going expeditions of her male colleagues. The scientists at the lab were all male the women who worked there were relegated to secretary or assistant. In 1948, at age 28, Marie walked into the newly formed geophysical lab at Columbia University and practically demanded a job. Before Marie Tharp, geologist and gifted draftsperson, the whole world, including most of the scientific community, thought the ocean floor was a vast expanse of thingness.
Soundings is the story of the enigmatic, unkwn woman behind one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century.
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