Welcome to a Horizons lecture/Darwin Day Thursday 9. February at VilVite – Thomas Kiørboe:

The Oceans’ Cryptic But Beautiful Life

Thomas Kiørboe is recognized world-wide for his original thinking that has led to pioneering contributions in many areas of marine ecology. He chairs the Centre for Ocean Life, a Centre of Excellence at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. Kiørboe has contributed nearly 200 research articles, mainly about small organisms in the ocean, how they are adapted to life in water, and their immense importance to ocean ecosystems and climate. Using high-resolution video cameras he visualizes the spectacular but cryptic organisms present in a drop of sea water.

In this lecture, he will visualize the oceans invisible life, explore how their morphologies and behaviors are adapted to optimize their fitness, and demonstrate how trade-offs between resource acquisition and survival generate a diversity of plankton communities. The lecture will draw on formal fluid physics but otherwise be light on physics and rich in movies such that everyone should be able to follow and enjoy.

Refreshments will be served from 15.45,  prior to the lecture which starts at 16.15. The lecture is held in English.

http://darwin.uib.no/index_en.html (engelsk Darwindag plakat)

Everybody is welcome!

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