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An organ-pipe sponge or Iophon laevistylis. “Throughout Dad’s sickness, even when he could no longer talk, the things I was learning about the ocean at university would make his face light up, he would be really proud of this,” Donald said. Conference organiser and Waikato University chair in Coastal Sciences Professor Chris Battershill said the vast number of sponges was a rare find and many appeared to have affinities with species already known to have cancer-fighting properties. In 1986, Battershill was part of a team of international scientists who discovered a rare sea sponge off the coast of Kaikōura in the South Island, which has since been used in the creation of the late phase breast cancer drug, Halaven.
Source: University of Waikato
How seaweed can help our agriculture industry, green shipping and electric ferries, sea level rise, aquaculture and how we protect our marine biodiversity are among the topics for discussion at the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Conference next week.
The University of Waikatoâs Tauranga campus will host 360 scientists between 5 â 8 July, presenting research on how to sustainably harness the economic potential of our marine environment while addressing the restoration of our marine ecosystems and conservation of our marine biodiversity.
The conference: âTitiro whakamuri, kÅkiri whakamuaâ, looking back to move forward, is the first time in two years New Zealandâs marine scientists have been brought together and the first time in 40 years the conference has been hosted in Tauranga.
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 9:53 am
How seaweed can help our agriculture industry, green
shipping and electric ferries, sea level rise, aquaculture
and how we protect our marine biodiversity are among the
topics for discussion at the New Zealand Marine Sciences
Society Conference next week.
The University of
Waikato’s Tauranga campus will host 360 scientists between
5 – 8 July, presenting research on how to sustainably
harness the economic potential of our marine environment
while addressing the restoration of our marine ecosystems
and conservation of our marine biodiversity.
The
conference: “Titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua”,
looking back to move forward, is the first time in two years