June 8th is World Oceans Day! To celebrate this important event, we are releasing seven cards describing our work and how it fits the 2017 World Oceans Day theme “Our Oceans, Our Future“. Each card is built using the official 2017 World Oceans Day poster as a background, and focuses on a component of the SponGES project covering its rationale, the knowledge gaps to address, where we currently stand and why it is important to work on the given subject.
Discover more about SponGES and make every day an Oceans Day!
We map deep-sea sponge grounds studying their distribution in time and space
We aim to assess the overall biodiversity of deep-sea sponge grounds of the North Atlantic
We study how deep-sea sponges reproduce and disperse, connecting populations
We quantify the impact of deep-sea sponges on the ecosystems around them
We search for novel deep-sea sponge-derived applications for Blue Biotechnology
We model how deep-sea sponge grounds respond to stressors, degrade and recover
We want to inform dialogue between all actors having a stake in deep-sea sponge grounds
