Policy
OTZ project featured at COP27
PhD student Ciara Willis presents research from the OTZ project at COP27’s Ocean Pavilion. In November 2022, the OTZ project…
Read MoreOTZ at COP27
This year, the ocean will occupy a more prominent position than it ever has at any previous UN Climate Conference.…
Read MoreWhere Does the Carbon Go?
Following the trail of marine snow with members of WHOI’s Café Thorium By Elise Hugus MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Samantha…
Read MoreOTZ Project Endorsed by the U.N.
It’s official: the OTZ Project has been formally recognized by the United Nations! We’re now an endorsed project of the…
Read MoreA New Report for the One Ocean Summit
A comb jelly, one of the many species that live in the ocean twilight zone, appears rainbow-colored—but this prism effect…
Read MoreFishing in the Twilight Zone: Illuminating governance challenges at the next fisheries frontier
Scientists have known since the 1970s that the ocean’s vast twilight zone could contain huge quantities of fish. Technology now…
Read MoreThe Lungs of the Earth: Shifting a Metaphor from Superstition to Science
Georgetown Journal of Public Affairs
Read MoreThe $500 billion question
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (right), one of the authors of the study, deploys a sediment trap used to study…
Read MoreHow Deep Does the Plastic Problem Go?
Our friends at Scripps Institution of Oceanography took a close look at plastics in the twilight zone. A very close…
Read MoreInforming Policy
Policy activities by members of the OTZ team have fallen into two categories: research and reporting, and leadership and influence.…
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