This webinar links to EMB Future Science Brief No. 12 'Deep sea research and management needs'.
Henk-Jan Hoving is a marine biologist who is passionate about deep-sea ecology, ocean exploration, marine technology and the deep pelagic, the largest habitat on the planet. At GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Henk-Jan Hoving leads the Deep-Sea Biology working group. Henk-Jan obtained his PhD from the University of Groningen (NL) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (CA, USA). He was granted a Future Ocean postdoctoral fellowship in and in 2017 he received an Emmy Noether fellowship from theGerman Research Foundation to start his own research group. His research program is focused on biodiversity and distribution, life history strategies and trophic interactions of organisms in oceanic and deep-sea ecosystems, with emphasis on pelagic fauna in a changing ocean. Henk-Jan performs such studies by applying a range of tools, including submersibles, different deep-sea camera platforms, nets and environmental DNA analysis. Specific research efforts in the Hoving lab are focused on understanding the role of pelagic invertebrates in the biological carbon pump, a crucial process in the transport of carbon, captured from the atmosphere, into the ocean interior and eventually to the deep-sea floor. Henk-Jan is an active member of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative, Associate Editor of Deep-Sea Research Part I and Marine Biology, consortium member of iAtlantic (EU), and leading and co-leading third party funded research (funded by Biodiversa, ONR, and the German Research Foundation and the Helmholtz Society).
You can register for the webinar here, and it will also be live-streamed on the EMB YouTube Channel.