Lunch Lecture: People and the sea: understanding thousands of years of marine biodiversity change
27.09.2024 at 12:10-13:00
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How have human societies affected the sea across time? Did ancient people live in harmony with the ocean? What can we learn about past marine biodiversity from shells, bones and mud? In this lecture I will present the SeaChange project, approaching answers to these questions with the data we have generated from across the world.
Luke Holman is a marine ecologist who specializes in using DNA left in the environment by animals, plants and bacteria to learn about marine biodiversity across space and through time. He lives and works in Denmark, analyzing marine sediments in the laboratories of the Globe Institute in Copenhagen. When not in the lab or looking at data, he loves to spend time at sea.