Workshops and Town Halls

• Submit to our COBRA Session OS001 – Accelerating Exploration and Research of the Deep Sea to Inform Decision Making convened by Beth Orcutt (COBRA Associate Director at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Julie Huber (COBRA Director at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Russell Shomberg (COBRA Executive Committee ECR at University of Maryland), and Adam Soule (COBRA Executive Committee member at NOAA OECI/University of Rhode Island)!
• COBRA will support travel funds for ten early career researchers in our AGU session through the COBRA Accelerator Award. ECRs interested in COBRA travel support are welcome to apply after their abstracts are accepted. AGU abstract submissions are due July 30, 2025; notifications of abstract acceptance will be sent in early October.
• We also submitted a proposal for an AGU Town Hall focused on deep-sea ECRs, and will share that opportunity when we are notified.

• See more COBRA-Related Sessions in our July newsletter

• COBRA Side-Event, December 10, 2024
  US Leadership in Deep-Sea Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs
  

• Deep-Sea Mining Futures in U.S. Waters: Safeguarding Marine Ecosystems and Local Communities eLightning Session, December 13, 2024
  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

• Microbial Geochemistry, Chemical Geobiology, and Geobiochemistry: Integrated Approaches to Understanding the World Around Us Oral Session, December 13, 2024
  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