- 2024-06-16: The paper about animations with GMT is Open Access and available on Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
- 2021-09-15: GMT now has an Instagram handle - @genericmappingtools!
- 2022-09-06: Paul Wessel is the recipient of the 2022 American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Earth and Space Science Informatics Greg Leptoukh Lecture.
- 2021-04-20: Paul Wessel presented the 2020 Ian McHarg Medal Lecture on the Generic Mapping Tools and Community-Maintained Open Source Software! See the presentation video at the vEGU21 site.
- 2021-03-15: GMT now has a Twitter handle - @gmt_dev!
- 2020-03-20: NSF-EAR grant number 1948602 awarded to fund efforts to make GMT truly sustainable by its community!
- 2019-11-04: Paul Wessel is the recipient of the 2020 European Geosciences Union Ian McHarg Medal for his work on GMT. Read more about it in the SOEST announcement and EGU 2020 awards recipients list.
- 2019-11-01: The paper for GMT 6 is Open Access and available on Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
- 2018-12-21: Walter was interviewed on the Don't Panic Geocast.
- 2018-08-17: NSF-EAR grant number 1829371 awarded to fund development of the new "modern mode" in GMT 6 and more!
- 2018-04-27: Paul and Leo were interviewed on the Don't Panic Geocast.