How to acknowledge SUMMER in your publications?
When acknowledging SUMMER in your publications, following (including the flag) is what needs to be included; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No [...]
Role of mesopelagics to top predators
Mesopelagic organisms are important prey for many commercially valuable species (e.g. tuna, swordfish, squid) and charismatic megafauna (e.g. marine mammals, seabirds, pelagic sharks). Many of these top predators dive into the mesopelagic zone to [...]
Newest article about Institutional nuts and bolts for a mesopelagic fishery in Norway
Some of the SUMMER participants - Eduardo Grimaldo and Dag Standal are authors on a newly released article in Science Direct - Marine Policy with the title "Institutional nuts and bolts for a mesopelagic [...]
Delayed SUMMER studies in the North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean
This month, May 2020, the St Andrews team was supposed to be in the final stages of preparation for going to sea on the SUMMER voyage on the Spanish Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa [...]
Newest article about the Twilight Zone – also in Nature
© scaliger / Adobe Stock Some of the the SUMMER participants - Adrian Martin, Xabier Irigoien and Sari Giering, are authors on a newly hot-off-the-press article in Nature on the Twilight Zone [...]
Mesopelagic species as Omega-3 fatty acid providers
Omega-3 (Docosahexaenoic acid -DHA- and eicosapentaenoic acid -EPA-) provides benefits on health for humans and animals in general. EPA and DHA are essential for proper fetal development and healthy aging. Global recommendation for these [...]
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Twilight Zone Article in Nature
Photo credit: Adobe stock (standard license) In February 2020, an article about ongoing efforts to do research on the importance of the mesopelagic zone - or the Twilight Zone - was published [...]
THE COLOUR OF MESOPELAGIC SPECIES
MEESO will identify and develop products for the human food chain from on board and on shore processing. This includes evaluating the potential of the species for biotechnological applications. Food safety aspects and condition [...]
MESOPELAGIC SPECIES
The mesopelagic ecosystem will equip at depths of between 200 and 1000 meters, and the amount of mesopelagic fish species in this zone is estimated to be in the order of billions of tonnes. [...]
TWILIGHT ZONE
What is the mesopelagic zone you may wonder? In short, the mesopelagic zone is a region of the ocean with insufficient light for photosynthesis, but sufficient for vision (200-1000 m depth). It is part [...]
SUMMER involved in JETZON
JETZON (Joint Exploration of the Twilight Zone Ocean Network) is an international group set up to address the question: how can we as an international scientific community obtain the greatest insight into the Twilight [...]
Where can you find us online?
SUMMER has the following accounts on social media platforms and we hope you will like and follow and share this with your contacts and colleagues: Twitter: https://twitter.com/summerh2020 — our name is @summerh2020 and please also here, [...]
SUMMER H2020
SUMMER's ambition is to obtain the information vital for a sustainable use of ocean resources through a comprehensive understanding of ocean functioning across its full depth. SUMMER will establish a protocol to accurately estimate [...]
Two H2020 projects on mesopelagic fish
The two H2020 projects SUMMER and MEESO where funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme in 2019. Both projects aim at studying mesopelagic challenges. The projects had a joint kick-off meeting in Bilbao during [...]
Special issue in ICES on Mesopelagic potentials
Photo by Leif Grimsmo, SINTEF Ocean Though this was prior to the start of SUMMER H2020, we would like to bring attention to this interdisicplinary issue of ICES that featured several aspects [...]
SUMMER H2020 Kick-off meeting
SUMMER is an EU H2020 research project with 22 partners from all over Europe and is coordinated by AZTI in Spain. The project had its kick-off meeting in Bilboa, Spain, from 24th to 26th [...]