In recent years, delegates from around the world have pushed for a new high seas treaty that promotes conservation and sustainable economic growth from high seas resources. The treaty language was recently approved by the delegates and now awaits ratification. If it is ratified, what will the treaty mean for high seas research and the burgeoning "blue economy"? In this talk I remind us of humankind's long history with the ocean, the challenges we face in gaining a deeper understanding of the ocean (literally and metaphorically), and the opportunities afforded by the forthcoming treaty and the growing demand for democratizing access to the high seas.
Biodiversity, Oceans, Public Issues, Sustainability Peter Girguis is a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He studies the how marine animals and microbes adapt to their environment and to a changing world. He also develops novel “open-access” deep sea instruments with the goal of enabling all stakeholders to have access to such tools.
Professor Girguis received his B.Sc. from UCLA, his Ph.D. from the UC Santa Barbara, and was a Packard Postdoctoral Fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 2005. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the NSF RIDGE2000 initiative, a Merck Co. Innovative Research Awardee, and chair of the National Deep Submergence Science Committee. He also serves on several notable boards. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, and his honors include the 2007 and 2011 Lindbergh Foundation Award for Science & Sustainability, the 2018 Lowell Thomas Award for groundbreaking advances in Marine Science and Technology, and the 2020 Petra Shattuck Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was recently named a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator for his research on marine symbioses. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
