Maila Guilhon is a PhD researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Her main interests are related to ecosystem-based management, deep-sea conservation, deep-sea mining and areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ); her current…
This week, we are calling for applications for a new Minerals working group co-lead to support Diva Amon and Sabine Gollner. In Hot Off The Press we share the World Ocean Assessment II,…
This bumper issue is kicked off by the exciting news that Diva Amon will be joining the DOSI Executive team. This is a formal recognition of a role Diva has been carrying out…
More deep-seabed mining papers this week, building our knowledge of the environment, biodiversity and resources of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific, where mining exploration licenses are being granted by the Independent Seabed…
Grabbing the headlines this week is the news that major companies including BMW and Google are backing a moratorium on deep-sea mining. In other mining news, Greenpeace have confronted a ship in the…
This week, there’s a very guilty looking western roughy… In other news, a paper “The commonness of of rarity in deep-sea taxon” has major implications for deep‐sea conversation, particularly in light of increasing…
About the webinar Climate change is altering coastal marine communities at an unprecedented scale and pace. We now know that deep-ocean ecosystems are also being affected. How are they being affected and why…
This week there has been a lot of discussion around a new study by Sala et al. (2021), “Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate”, in whose conservation planning framework there…
Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, writer and broadcaster who has written no less than seven books on the ocean to date, including the Guardian bestseller, Spirals in Time about the hidden…
Models are in vogue this week, being used to predict warming in the deep Gulf of Mexico waters, to estimate deep-sea halibut distributions and calculate carbon and nutrient recycling rates in the twilight…
Anna Metaxas is a Professor in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University, Canada. Alongside her deep-sea research, Anna is involved in a number of national and international initiatives that have as an ultimate…