EGU General Assembly 2025 GIFT Workshop
For 2025 we return to Vienna for our 23rd GIFT workshop ‘Exploring the Sea Floor’ - in the middle of UNESCO’s Ocean Decade.
The Sea Floor (a.k.a. the seabed, ocean floor & ocean bottom) is a complex and intriguing landscape, subject to many of the geological processes we experience on land. While its landscape continues to change, it is worth remembering that as of May 2023, 75% of the world’s sea floor was yet to be mapped, in part because of its inaccessible and challenging nature (remember the lowest point in the ocean is much deeper than the highest point on land).
Although out of sight for so long, the sea floor has the same general characteristics of the continental land with mountains, plains, channels, canyons, ridges, exposed rocks and sediment covered areas. The sea floor allows scientists to draw connections between volcanic, tectonic, hydrothermal, and biological systems in order to better understand the Earth’s remarkable, evolving geography. Leading experts in many of these topics will join us at GIFT and share their knowledge with us across an exciting 2.5 days.
Please see the programme overview (PDF document, 248.2 KB) for more details.