SponGES had its fourth Science-Policy panel/roundtable about North Atlantic deep-sea sponge ecosystems on 7-9 May 2019, in Rome. The meeting took place in connection with the Deep-Sea Conference arranged by the ABNJ Deep-Sea project. The meeting was organised in cooperation … Read More
The piece Sponges and corals: Seafloor assessments to help protect against climate change was published today, April 29th 2019, in the Horizon Magazine. The piece describes the rationale and current progress of the two EU-funded research and innovation projects SponGES … Read More
REFERENCE Rubin-Blum, Maxim; Antony, Chakkiath Paul; Sayavedra, Lizbeth; Martínez-Pérez, Clara; Birgel, Daniel; Peckmann, Jörn; Wu, Yu-Chen; Cardenas, Paco; Mac Donald, Ian; Macron, Yann; Sahling, Heiko; Hentschel, Ute; Dubilier, Nicole (2019). The ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0346-7. ABSTRACT Sponges host a remarkable diversity … Read More
REFERENCE Kenchington, Ellen; Wang, Zeilang; Lirette, Camille; Murillo, Francisco Javier; Guijarro, Javier; Yashayaev, Igo; Maldonado, Manuel. (2018). Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.11.007. ABSTRACT Over the course of the past decade, in response to United Nations General … Read More
Our team member Ute Hentschel-Humeida (from GEOMAR’s Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel) introduced an audience of over 1000 high-school students to the secret world of sponges, and to the scope and activities of project SponGES. The talk was … Read More
REFERENCE Beazley, Lindsay; Wang, Zeliang; Kenchington, Ellen; Yashayaev, Igor; Rapp, Hans Tore; Xavier, Joana R; Murillo, Francisco Xavier; Fenton, Derek; Fuller, Susanna. (2018). PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205505. ABSTRACT Emerald Basin on the Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia, Canada, is home to … Read More
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REFERENCE Dudik, Olesia; Lenor, Isabel; Xavier, Joana R; Rapp, Hans Tore; Pires, Ricardo A, Silva, Tiago H; Reis, Rui L. (2018). Materials Today. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2018.03.025. EXSTRACT Sponges (Phylum Porifera) are highly diverse and important members of many benthic communities in all … Read More
The three European “sister projects” SponGES, MERCES and Atlas joined forces to bring collaborative research funded under the Galway Statement agenda to the global stage of marine biodiversity. The projects participated together in the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (Montreal, … Read More
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