Due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, Nekton Submarine STEM 2020 live lessons will be delivered as a virtual event, with speakers joining from where they are, rather than from the research vessel.

In this lesson, learners will meet Dr Lucy Woodall, principal scientist at Nekton and senior research fellow at the University of Oxford.

Connect live to the Indian Ocean, where the Nekton expedition team is undertaking important research about the health of the deep ocean off Seychelles and the Maldives. This live lesson will focus on the underwater habitat that the team are exploring - seamounts. With only 0.3 per cent of the known 100,000 seamounts researched to date, these hot spots for marine biodiversity remain some of the least known and least protected parts of our planet.

Classes will have have the chance to put their questions to the team on-board the research ship DSSV Pressure Drop, including the chance to communicate live with DSV Limiting Factor, the submarine used in this research, which is capable of diving to the deepest point in the ocean.

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