Workshops and Town Halls

• COBRA Side-Event, Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (14:30 – 16:30), Registration Required
  US Leadership in Deep-Sea Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs
  

• GC51G eLightnings: Friday, December 13, 2024 (08:30 – 10:00)
  Deep-Sea Mining Futures in U.S. Waters: Safeguarding Marine Ecosystems and Local Communities
  Datu Buyung Agusdinata, Susanne Neuer, Sheryl Murdock, Kim Nguyen, Beth Orcutt and Chris Robbins

• • COBRA eLightning GC51G-04: Friday, December 13, 2024 (08:39 – 08:42)
    Deep-sea mining impacts on microbial ecosystem services: Baseline data, best indicators, and potential thresholds of harm
    Beth Orcutt, Emma Bolton, Natalia Erazo, Tremaine Bowman, Andrian Paladar Gajigan, Moronke Harris, Massimiliano Molari, Rose Jones, Jeffrey J Marlow, Sheryl Murdock, Maria Pachiadaki, Gustavo Ramirez, Miguel Semedo, Alycia Smith, Andrew Sweetman, Jason B Sylvan, Julie A Huber

• B54C / B51L Orals and Posters: Friday, December 13, 2024 (08:30 – 12:20, 16:00 – 17:30)
  Microbial Geochemistry, Chemical Geobiology, and Geobiochemistry: Integrated Approaches to Understanding the World Around Us
  • COBRA Oral B54C-05: Friday, December 13, 2024 (16:40 – 16:50), Convention Center (149 A-B)
    Characterization of (Sub)Seafloor Microbial Communities at Octopus Nurseries Associated with Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Vents at La Pampa Submarina, Costa Rica (Julie A Huber, Gustavo Ramirez, Beth Orcutt, Oscar Almacen, Ryu Akiba, Timothy D’Angelo, Andrew T Fisher, Rachel M Lauer, Holly Lutz, Shiva Sadeghpour, Margrethe Serres, Amanda Sutherland, Fiorella Vasquez Fallas, Janet R Voight, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, Teodora Zhivkova, Jorge Cortés, Octopus Odyssey Science Parties)

Poster Session, July 29, 2024
Hands-on STEM modules for 3rd – 9th grades to understand deep-sea processes through undersea technologies
Julie A Huber, Geoff Wheat, Claudia Paul, Jason Nicholson, Kelli Ventimilia, Lisa Marrack, Steven Pina, Susan Castello, David Chandler, Kelly Miller, Kimi Kato, Krista Gaffney, Rios Gustavo, Kristen Johannes, and Gustavo Ramirez

• COBRA+DOOS+DESSC+ODL Town Hall, February 19, 2024
  Connecting Early-Career Deep-Sea Professionals with Opportunities for Training and Networking
  

• COBRA Master Class Presentation, February 19, 2024
  Broadening Early Career Researcher Participation in Ocean Sciences via a New Deep-Sea Expedition Leadership Master Class
  Julie A Huber, Katherine Lynn Croff Bell, Andrew T Fisher, James McManus, Beth Orcutt, Randi Rotjan, Rosalynn Sylvan, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, Master Class Participants 2022 and 2023

• COBRA Poster Session, February 22, 2024
  Accelerating Research of the Crustal Ocean Biosphere to Inform Decision making
  

• See more COBRA-Related Sessions in our February newsletter

COBRA Mini-Workshop, October 2-5, 2023
Seafloor Microbial Ecosystem Services (Led by COBRA)
Meeting host: Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS) in partnership with COBRA and the Ocean Discovery League

DOOS Town Hall, February 25, 2022
Deep-Sea Connections: Developing Cohesion and Synergies among Deep-sea Networks, Programs, Projects and Scientists
Lead Organizer: Leslie Smith, Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS)

Geomicrobiology of the Deep Biosphere Poster Session, December 17, 2021
The Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator (COBRA) will Inform Decision Making for Deep-Sea Mining and Subseafloor Carbon Sequestration
Beth Orcutt, Julie Huber, Andrew Fisher, Jim McManus, Randi Rotjan, Rosalynn Sylvan, Geoff Wheat