Q&A: Leveraging the power of open source data to map the world's oceans

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist and a senior research scientist and geoinformatics expert at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia Climate School.