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Date and time

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 - 19:00 - Thu, 8 Oct 2026 - 20:30

 

 

All day

Off

 

Format

in person

 

Event type

[Public lecture](/taxonomy/term/8)

 

 

An evening public lecture on the deep ocean, aimed at a general audience with no scientific background assumed.

The deep ocean is the largest habitat on the planet and among the least measured. Most of what is known about it comes from a small number of transects, a small number of instruments, and a great deal of extrapolation. The lecture is about what follows from that: which confident statements rest on thin evidence, which questions are genuinely open, and why the answer to "why don't we just go and look" is more complicated than cost.

The talk covers how deep ocean observation actually works, what autonomous platforms have and have not changed, and the specific question of how much carbon the deep ocean is taking up — a number that matters a great deal and is known less precisely than most people assume.

No registration required. Doors at 6:30 p.m., lecture at 7 p.m., questions until about 8:30 p.m.

The lecture is held in the Kestrel Building auditorium, which is fully accessible. Parking is free after 6 p.m. in all campus lots.

Suitable for older school students and adults. Younger children may find the format long.



Programs

[Oceanography](/program/oceanography)