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Seminar

Biological Impacts of Cenozoic Global Changes on the Deep-sea Ostracoda Fauna

  • Date

    November 17,2020

  • Time

    3:30PM - 4:20PM

  • Speaker

    Dr. H.-H. May HUANG Department of Earth Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, HKU

The deep ocean floor is the largest and the least explored ecosystem on Earth. It has gradually become clear that it hosts high biodiversity. However, the evolution of deep-sea ecosystem remains poorly understood partially due to the poor fossil preservation of most benthic organisms. Microcrustacean ostracods are the only metazoan group that has abundant fossil records in the deep sea. In this presentation, I would like to share my deep-sea drilling projects where ostracods provide an important glimpse into deep-sea biodiversity and evolution.