Research and analysis: UK Science & Innovation Contributes to Global Ocean Security

Together with the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute, SIN Boston convened a meeting of leading scientists from the
UK and USA to develop a joint deep-sea coral research programme. This work,
catalyzed in 2008, has evolved into the €9.3 million ATLAS project, which supports UN
Sustainable Development Goal 14 to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas
and marine resources.”