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The Deep Ocean: Life in the abyss Louise Allcock
Event details
The deep ocean comprises more than 90 percent of our planet’s biosphere and is home to some of the world’s most dazzling creatures, which thrive amid extreme pressures, scarce food supplies and frigid temperatures.
Living things down here behave in remarkable and surprising ways, and cutting-edge technologies are shedding new light on these critically important ecosystems.
In this exciting talk, zoologist Louise Allcock leads you down into the canyons, trenches and hydrothermal vents of the watery abyss, presenting the deep ocean and its inhabitants as you have never seen them before.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
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Image credit: © University of Galway / Marine Institute
About the speaker
Louise Allcock is a professor of zoology at the University of Galway, Ireland. She began her career working on octopuses in the Southern Ocean and expanded to the deep sea worldwide. Louise has extensively explored submarine canyon systems of the North Atlantic with remotely operated vehicles, leading many expeditions as chief scientist, and has dived in submersibles in the Indian Ocean. She is passionate about protecting the oceans.
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