A bumper edition this week with plenty of deep-sea research hitting the headlines. Amongst these is an eagerly-anticipated MIT paper on the impact and scale of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes. Also, architects…
Short-ish round-up this week, but most importantly a reminder to please complete the DOSI Day survey by the 21st July (if you are planning to attend on the 1st September). A relative lull…
New papers study cold-water corals (CWCs) in the context of inter-annual oceanographic variation and noise pollution, using the pandemic as an opportunity to measure a reduced-noise environment. While the basin-wide conservation of Vulnerable…
The news that Nauru has triggered the two-year rule, allowing deep-sea mining to begin the in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone within two years regardless of the regulations in place at the time, has fired…
This week we share an interview with ocean lawyer Hannah Lily. A member of DOSI’s Advisory Board, Hannah has been involved with DOSI from the start, and is an active member of the…
Jurassic Star, Mesobot and a state-of-the-art laboratory. Sound like the plot for an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster? Not quite, but it is surely the next best thing – your DOSI Deep-Sea Round-Up has arrived.…
This week we celebrated World Ocean Day, and amongst all the ocean content was an announcement worth celebrating from IOC-UNESCO of their endorsement of a number of Ocean Decade actions, including Challenger 150,…
Can you believe it’s nearly June, which means World Ocean Day is almost upon us! Where has 2021 gone? In this week’s Deep-Sea Round-Up, we share the news that we will be premiering…