Challenger 150 – A Decade to Study Deep-Sea Life

March 16, 2026

MiningImpact

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel – Germany MiningImpact assesses…

March 10, 2026

Mapping Atlantic Cold-Water Corals

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Plymouth Marine Laboratory – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…

July 8, 2024

Marine Research Cruises in Remote Areas (CIMAR Program)

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Chilean National Oceanographic Committee (CONA) – Chile The marine research cruise…

July 8, 2024

Building capacity to protect marine biodiversity (BAIT)

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: University of Aveiro – Portugal This Decade Action has now been…

February 7, 2024

Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) – Canada The Northeast Pacific Deep-sea…

October 30, 2023

Conservation of the deep-sea in light of mining

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (Ifremer) –…

October 27, 2023

Vulnerability of the deep-sea facing exploitation

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (Ifremer) –…

September 28, 2022

IceDivA

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Senckenberg am Meer, German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research – Germany…

September 28, 2022

Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies (AleutBio)

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum – Germany The AleutBio…

August 6, 2022

Seabed Mining & Resilience To EXperimental impact

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ALL ACTIONS Lead institution: National Oceanography Centre – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern…

Challenger 150 – A Decade to Study Deep-Sea Life

MiningImpact

Mapping Atlantic Cold-Water Corals

Marine Research Cruises in Remote Areas (CIMAR Program)

Building capacity to protect marine biodiversity (BAIT)

Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project

Conservation of the deep-sea in light of mining

Vulnerability of the deep-sea facing exploitation

IceDivA

Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies (AleutBio)

Seabed Mining & Resilience To EXperimental impact

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Challenger 150 – A Decade to Study Deep-Sea Life

MiningImpact

Mapping Atlantic Cold-Water Corals

Marine Research Cruises in Remote Areas (CIMAR Program)

Building capacity to protect marine biodiversity (BAIT)

Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project

Conservation of the deep-sea in light of mining

Vulnerability of the deep-sea facing exploitation

IceDivA

Aleutian Trench Biodiversity Studies (AleutBio)

Seabed Mining & Resilience To EXperimental impact

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