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Conference: ICES Deep-sea Symposium


I recently participated in the ICES Deep-sea Symposium on the island of Faial in the Azores. This 4 day meeting ran from 27-30 April and included delegates from all over the world, presenting on subjects from mining to ecology of many deep-sea habitats. The conference was headed: “Issues confronting the deep oceans: the economic, scientific [...]

Hot-spot Ecosystem Research on European Margins (HERMES) March 2008


I’m in Carvoerio, Portugal presenting work done on the EU FP7 project HERMES regarding food supply mechanisms to a coral reef. Read the abstract below: Internal waves provide a food supply mechanism for cold-water coral reefs Andrew J. Davies, Marc Lavaleye, Magda Bergman, J. Murray Roberts, Hans Van Haren and Gerard Duineveld The cold-water coral [...]