HERMES Class Material (for instructors)

As part of our endeavour to provide class materials relevant to deepsea research and training, we have compiled some lecture notes and links to documents, which you can find below:

HERMES-related publications
Lecture notes for university teaching in topics related to HERMES


Legal aspects concerning the deep sea

• The 1982 (amended) UN Convention on Law of the Sea (LOSC)
  (check out legal definitions of continental shelf and slope, and the deepsea bed regime, The Area).
• UNU Deep Sea legal materials
• Latest development on deep sea legal regime (Download item 1, item 2, item 3)

Read UNEP publications on cold water corals (download hi resolution pdf, low resolution pdf, flyer pdf)

• Cold-water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight - No Longer Out of Mind
• Cold-Water Corals New Global Conservation Challenge