Evgenia obtained a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Bremen (2012), working in the Arctic Ocean marine geology group at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. In 2016 she received an FIG/IHO/ICA Cat. A Certificate in Hydrography on completion of the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Training Course in ocean mapping at the CCOM/University of New Hampshire.
At NIWA, Evgenia works as Data Manager for the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project https://seabed2030.gebco.net/pacific, which aims to integrate all available bathymetric data to increase resolution of the GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans) map.
