Showing posts with label Wallace Lectures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wallace Lectures. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

The Wallace Lectures - Marine Biodiversity: Known and Unknown

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I attended the latest instalment of the Wallace Lectures. Conducted by Dr. Bertrand Richer de Forges, it was an overview about some of the amazing and mysterious deep-sea communities, many of which were only discovered in the last 50 years, as well as a discussion of how much more we still don't know about marine biodiversity.

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Naturally, I live-tweeted much of the session, under the hasthag #WallaceBertrandRicherdeForges, and here are my tweets from that evening and photos of some of his slides, compiled as a Storify: