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GeoHab 2010 Conference in Wellington, New Zealand |
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Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00 |
The annual GeoHab (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping) Conference was held this year in Wellington, New Zealand, and hosted by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). With the theme 'Characterisation, Quantification and Diversity of Extreme Habitats', delegates from around the world presented posters and seminars highlighting the latest seabed mapping research.
Antarctic cold-water coral community. Image courtesy of the Australian Antarctic Division
I presented a seminar titled 'Physical controls on deep-water coral communities on the George V margin, East Antarctica. This research focused on the physical environmental factors that may strongly influence the distribution of cold-water corals in Antarctica. Even though this paper was a polar study, the sampling technologies used, such as underwater video, are also applicable to the deep-water ecosystems in the Coral Sea.
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