During a research cruise to the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges, the DeepSeaQuence project co-hosted a live stream together with the Erasmus+ project RIALHE (https://rialhe.eu/) and the Center for Deep Sea Research (https://www.uib.no/en/deepsea), giving remote access to advanced infrastructure. During the live stream session from the ROV ÆGIR6000 onboard the research vessel G.O SARS, all registered participants had the opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A session. The ROV dive was conducted at the Loki’s Castle Vent field situated at ~2300 meters depth south/east of Svalbard (map).

In total, 302 registered for the event with 200 unique viewers during the live stream.

A special thank you to the Aquarium in Bergen giving us feedback on the big screen view of the live stream given to their visitors.

We had a good time onboard during the session, thank you to all involved; Runar Stokke, Petra Hribovšek, Eoghan Reeves (remotely from Hamburg), Ida H. Steen, Mari Heggernes Eilertsen (https://cbearctic.com/), Noemí Segura Sole, and the ROV team.

The webinar is available here: https://vimeo.com/981277232

 

 

From 14-19 August 2022 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the project PI attended the 18^th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, accompanied by Dr. Katharina Sass and PhD-candidates Francesca Vulcano, Petra Hribovsek and Emily Olesin Denny. Surrounded by the amazing view of the Swiss Alpes, we experienced an amazing atmosphere at the conference with cutting edge science within microbial ecology presented throughout the week, including the fantastic presentations and posters from Katharina, Francesca, Petra and Emily.