2009 Deep Ocean Odyssey

"2009 Deep Ocean Odyssey" will be held October 21, 2009 in Kristiansand, Norway from 12:00-15:00 Western European Time and live webcast at http://www.mar-eco.no/

The popular science talks will include:

• History of the blue planet;
  
• Green food and giants of the mid-ocean surface;
  
• Coping with vastness, darkness and hunger;
  
• Bottom-dwellers on peaks and plains;
  
• Searching wide and far (deepwater technology)

The event will also feature:

• New stunning images of deepwater animals
  
• New music played by live band
  
• Informal exchanges between scientists and students.

The event was organized by MAR-ECO (co-ordinated by the Institute of Marine Research & Univ. of Bergen,
Norway) in cooperation with the University of Agder (Inst. of IKT, & Inst. of Music).

Source: Census of Marine Life