General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) - Marine Region (VLIZ)
Dates: 2026 – 2028
Intralaboratory Program Leader: Marion MAISONOBE
Laboratory members involved in the program: Mattia BUNEL, Clarisse DIDELON-LOISEAU, Denis ECKERT, Sébastien HAULE, Marie-Vic OZOUF MARIGNIER, Hugues PÉCOUT, Mayline STROUK
Transversal subjects concerned: Data and protocols in the digital humanities; Mobilities and territories: towards a relational approach to space
External members: Niki Vermeulen (University of Edinburgh), Josselin Tallec (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
Funding: ANR (French National Research Agency)
Description: The project is being undertaken in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science context. It is a human geography project that considers scientific relations as a type of international relations that are woven over time, and as witnesses to the political, economic and environmental transformations that have taken place in the world since the end of the 19th century. The marine stations are envisaged as nodal points of a global infrastructure for the production and circulation of knowledge, resilient over the long term, whose structure and dynamics we will study. Three main axes will be considered:
1. LOCALISATION: the logics and localisation effects of marine stations on their development and specialisation patterns;
2. INTERACTIONS: connections and movements between marine stations across borders;
3. KNOWLEDGE: regionalisation and specialisation dynamics associated with ocean knowledge.
Each axis is broken down into sub-studies that allow different geographical scales to be articulated and different sources to be mobilised. The LOCALISATION axis raises the question of the influence of the spatial location of stations on their development trajectory and longevity. The INTERACTIONS axis examines the role of events and of the international geopolitical situation in the reconfiguration of privileged scientific relationships over time. The KNOWLEDGE axis explores the relationship between the location of the stations, the geographical areas covered and the research themes favoured.
Through the use of spatial analysis methods used, the focus on change, international relations and resilience to global events, OCEANLINKS contribute to the ANR axis ‘Societies and territories in transition’.
