Deep ocean exploration – Dr Diva Amon, 2018
Dr Diva Amon takes us underneath the waves to explore the deep ocean, and the very bizarre love lives of some of the creatures living there.
Dr Diva Amon is a Trinidadian deep-sea biologist who studies chemosynthetic habitats and human impacts on the deep ocean. She is a Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum in London, where she also undertook a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship. In 2013, she completed her PhD at the University of Southampton, after which, she spent three years at the University of Hawai’i, researching the largely unknown abyssal fauna of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, an area targeted for deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean. Throughout her career, Diva has participated in deep-sea expeditions around the world, exploring and studying previously unknown habitats, while trying her best to communicate the wonders of the deep ocean. Diva is also a co-founder of the non-profit NGO, SpeSeas.
You can follow her work here:
Website: https://divaamon.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DivaAmon
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diva-amon/
Recorded at the IET and sponsored by Digital Science, you can watch the rest of the Ada Lovelace Day Live 2018 playlist here.