SUMMER is an EU H2020 research project with 22 partners from all over Europe and is coordinated by AZTI in Spain. The project had its kick-off meeting in Bilboa, Spain, from 24th to 26th of September last year. The kick-off meeting was a partly joint meeting together with MEESO, another EU-H2020 project funded to study […]
Due to the COVID-19 situation the annual meeting for SUMMER will be held virtually instead of a physical meeting in Bergen, Norway. We have scheduled it for the days 26th, 27th and 28th of October, although given the inflation of videoconferences in this period, we want to condense it (if possible) in two days. Nevertheless, […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] SUMMER school course, May 22.-26. in Iceland Gallery The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course […]
SUMMER has the following accounts on social media platforms and we hope you will like and follow and share this with your contacts and colleagues: Twitter: https://twitter.com/summerh2020 — our name is @summerh2020 and please also here, use the hashtag #summerh2020 as well when you tweet about results or meetings that are related to SUMMER or mesopelagic resources. […]
This year’s annual meeting was held in Barcelona at […] Researchers at AZTI explored how they could use environmental […] One of the main goals of the team from the […] “Open data” means that scientists make the data that they […]
The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course in Reykjavik, Iceland on the mesopelagic zone, hosted by the Marine And Freshwater Research Institute and the University of Iceland. The course will last 5 days, beginning at May 22nd and ending at May 26th. The course is for 2 ECT credits, and will feature lectures […]
This year’s annual meeting was held in Barcelona at […] The organic carbon produced by photosynthesis in the illuminated […] For all those interesting in the deep scattering layer […] The Reykjavik FAO Expert Consultation [1] interpreted an ecosystem […] Ifremer, the French research institute for the exploitation of […] The ocean plays a major […]
To enhance our knowledge on the mesopelagic community and the importance of the organisms inhabiting this domain, key players in various regions of the world need to be identified, their abundance assessed, and their ecosystem function determined. The mesopelagic domain is defined as the depth region between 200 and 1000 m depth. This deep twilight […]
One core aim of the SUMMER project is the evaluation of the potential of mesopelagic fish for high-value products. Fish oil and fish meal, or protein concentrates, are only some well-known fishery by-products, which are investigated for their biotechnological potential within the project. Left: Mesopelagic fish species Maurolicus muelleri, Right: close-up of dissected gills of […]
Lancetfishes (family Alepisauridae) are one of the largest fishes […] Elephant seals, also known as Sea elephants may not […] Marine Hatchetfishes (Sternoptychinae) are a subfamily of small pelagic […]
Photo credit: Adobe stock (standard license) In February 2020, an article about ongoing efforts to do research on the importance of the mesopelagic zone – or the Twilight Zone – was published in Nature The article talks about the lack of coordinated research on this zone – especially in light of increasing interest from commercial […]
The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course in […] SUMMER school course, May 22.-26. in Iceland Gallery The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course […] Elephant seals, also known as Sea elephants may not […]
SUMMER school course, May 22.-26. in Iceland Gallery The SUMMER project is arranging a summer school course […] Researchers from AZTI (Spain), National Oceanography Centre (UK), University […] A small exhibition of the extraordinary and incredible creatures hidden […] This year’s annual meeting was held in Barcelona at […] The depth and unique characteristics of […]
Mesopelagics – New gold rush or castle in the sky? Gallery Communication, Dissemination, fun fact, jetzon, Laksesild, mesopelagic species, Mesopelagic zone, open science, Publication, Sin categoría, social media In this recently published article, Fjeld et al. performed […] Tunas are some of the most commercially important, and […] Lancetfishes (family Alepisauridae) are one of the […]
