What is deep ocean biodiversity and why does it matter? How does science dis-cover new forms of life in a deep sea environment? Dr. Levin will answer these questions and discuss the emerging threats to deep sea biodiversity from human activities including offshore fishing, energy extraction, pollution, seabed mining, and man-made climate change. There are opportunities to address these challenges but they require navigating and harmonizing a complex web of international governance and regimes.
Lisa A. Levin is a Distinguished Professor of biological oceanography and marine ecology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. She holds the Elizabeth Hamman and Morgan Dene Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Science and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Lev-in studies deep-sea environments, including methane seeps and oxygen minimum zones, regions of ocean that are deprived of oxygen – between 200 and 1,000 metres deep with less than 90% of the surface oxygen. Her work also considers the structure of vulnerable ecosystems, wetland biotic interactions and larval ecology of coastal marine populations.
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