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Press / Information Kit

PRESS RELEASES

18 Feb 2008 -- Endowment Fund Launched to Increase Deep-Seabed Research [ pdf | html ]

09 Apr 2008 -- Seven Law of the Sea Experts Appointed to Advisory Panel in Support of the International Seabed Authority Endowment Fund [ pdf | html ]

29 April 2008 -- Media Advisory : Promoting Marine Science

30 April 2008 -- Endowment Fund Makes for Strange Seabed Fellows [pdf | html]

 

IN THE NEWS

2 May 2008 -- Regulators gird as miners eye the seafloor: Article by Nathanial Gronewold of Greenwire Environment & Energy News [pdf | html]

May 2008 - Collaborative Marine Scientific Research on the International Seabed: Article by Michael Lodge, Legal Adviser of the ISA in the Ocean Sovereignty, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008.  Copyright Journal of Ocean Technology 2008. [ pdf ]

 

INFORMATION KIT

Backgrounder/Fact Sheetpdf
Application Guidelinespdf
Advisory Panelpdf
InterRidge Research Opportunitypdf
Contribution Cardpdf
Maps of the Area 

 

VIDEO

A 17sec video of a plume of hot water and minerals venting through the seabed to form a 'black smoker .

 

IMAGES

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smoker
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