The GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team’s Success Story: Advancing Unmanned Seafloor Mapping through the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE challenge

Rochelle Anne Wigley1, Yulia Zarayskaya2, Karolina Zwolak3, Jaya A Roperez4, Evgenia Bazhenova5, Masanao Sumiyoshi6, Seeboruth Shailesh Sattiabaruth7, Aileen Bohan8, Tomer Ketter4, Ivan Ryzhov9, Christina Lacerda10, Mohamed Elsaied Abou-Mahmoud11, Hadar Sade12, Neil Tinmouth13, Alison Proctor14, Craig Wallace15, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow16, Timothy Kearns17, Robin K H Falconer18, Bob Anderson19 and Benjamin Simpson20, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ocean Floor Geomorphology and Tectonics, Geological Institute, Moscow, Russia, (3)Polish Naval Academy, Gdynia, Poland, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Durham, NH, United States, (5)NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, (6)Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Ministry of housing and lands, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, (8)Geological Survey of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, (9)Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, (10)NF/GEBCO Training Alumni, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (11)Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Science Matrouh University, Petroleum Geology Department, Matrouh, Egypt, (12)Yam-Yafo Ltd., Rishon Lezion, Israel, (13)NF/GEBCO Training Alumni, Cape Town, South Africa, (14)Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc., Burnaby, Canada, (15)Kongsberg Maritime AS, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (16)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (17)Numurus, Seattle, United States, (18)GEBCO, Wellington, New Zealand, (19)GEBCO, New York, United States, (20)Hushcraft Ltd, Mersea, United Kingdom