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Posts tagged SMARTEX 2024
Tanga Morris Explores the Depths: Return from 2024 SMARTEX Expedition

SMARTEX (Seabed Mining and Resilience to Experiment Impact) aims to provide the critical scientific understanding and evidence-base to reduce risks of deep-sea mining of polymetallic nodules in the central Northeast Pacific Ocean. The project aims to better understand the ecosystem in the Pacific abyss and how the different components interact and interconnects.

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