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: Ferran Giones; Posted On September 9, 2019

Horizon Europe: the EU plans to spend €100 billion on research – here’s how to get the most from it

Imagine that you could decide how to invest €10 billion in research projects. Now imagine that you have to make this decision not once, but every...

: DHI; Posted On September 4, 2019

How Advances in Numerical Modelling Can Better Address Intensified Environmental Management Demands

Long-term offshore oil and gas activities, port expansion projects and more recent growth in the offshore renewable and deep-sea mining sectors...

: Bill Streever; Posted On August 23, 2019

The Time is Right: A Public-Private Partnership for the World’s Deepest Submersible

Private equity investor and underwater explorer Victor Vescovo will soon sell his submarine, which he calls the Limiting Factor. And the U.S....

: Pete Smith; Posted On August 19, 2019

Top Climate Scientist: I Put Myself Through Hell as An IPCC Convening Lead Author, But It Was Worth It

In my day job, I am a scientist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland studying things such as how agriculture contributes to climate change and...

: Christopher Bowgen; Posted On July 12, 2019

Beneath the Shell

Slow sea snails are, the unlikely inspirations for faster diabetes treatments

: National Oceanography Centre; Posted On June 4, 2019

D-Day: The Starting Point for Modern UK Oceanography

Prior to the landings on 6 June 1944 on the Normandy beaches, a small research group was formed in the Admiralty Research Laboratory at Teddington...

: David Helvarg; Posted On May 29, 2019

An Extinction Timeline and How We Can Alter It

In 2017 on a dive trip to Cuba my friend Manny Ramos took me to what he said was one of the best snorkeling beaches in the country three hours...

: Sandra Brooke; Posted On March 26, 2019

Battle for the Deep Seafloor

Human interest in the marine environment originally focused on the highly productive coastal zone, where food and energy resources were readily...

: Carlie Wiener and Kate Herries; Posted On March 26, 2019

New Underwater Worlds

Upside-down waterfalls, underwater lakes and calcite caverns awaited the science team as they sought to reveal the hidden secret of one of the...

: ECO; Posted On March 26, 2019

Descending into the Five Deeps

An adventurer’s dream is a simple one, be curious; challenge everything, ask questions, explore the unknown.

: Travis Richards; Posted On March 26, 2019

Deep-Sea Foodwebs: It’s Complicated

Due to its vast size and depth, the deep-pelagic ocean (200 meters and below) helps maintain the health of the planet by playing a role in carbon...

: Heather Ritchie; Posted On March 26, 2019

Extreme Adaptation: Surviving in the Hadal Zone

The ocean is divided into multiple depth zones; epipelagic (0-200m) mesopelagic (200-1000m), bathyal (1000-4000m), abyssal (4000-6000m) and the...

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