Table 4. Primary CenSeam education and outreach activities.

Conferences Special Sessions

CenSeam researchers initiated and chaired 12 special sessions at scientific conferences. Dedicated seamount sessions at the European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS) marked the start (2005) and end (2010) of CenSeam.

Workshops

CenSeam Image Analysis Workshop. May 2007, Totnes, UK

Classification and Identification of Marine Organisms from Images and Video. March 2009, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA

Education and Outreach

CenSeam Newsletters

Archive of images and video for use by educators and the media (http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/node/371)

Voyage Logs (http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/voyages)

Press coverage for science results, e.g. “City of Brittlestars” (http://www.coml.org/comlfiles/press/CoML_CenSeam_Public_Release-05-16-08.pdf)