Vanessa Ferreira Lopes is an early-career ocean professional who most recently completed a master’s degree in Marine Biology at Boston University. She joined DOSI’s delegation at the BBNJ IGC-5 Conference in August 2022,…
The wide range of organizations that play a part in deep-ocean science and outreach can be confusing, especially to newcomers. With this page, we hope to make things easier by highlighting key deep-ocean…
We have exciting news in today’s Deep-Sea Round-Up: Going forward, DOSI will be supported by 10 years of funding from Arcadia -a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. You can read…
Vital efforts to safeguard the global ocean for future generations will be supported by new funding from Arcadia -a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. This new grant will allow…
Publications are swimming in new deep-sea research this week: Today’s Round-Up features ten articles “hot off the press,” and that’s just scratching the surface. A series of articles on deep-sea mining in The…
Report by ocean scientists Angelika Brandt, Julia Swigart, and Elva Escobar The original Challenger voyages in the 19th Century unfortunately did not reach the higher latitudes of the Pacific. However, Challenger’s legacy continues…
Human society depends on the ocean, now more than ever. Its enormous volume -over 90 percent of the space available to life on Earth- is filled with unique ecosystems. While those environments are…
The impact of deep-sea fisheries on the marine environment calls for effective measures to ensure that fishing does not compromise the commitments established by the United Nations for protecting biodiversity in the deep…