Before you get started with BiiGLE Party, the custom-built Into The Deep community research tool, you'll need to know a little bit about that corner of the ocean. We've made 4 quick and easy online courses, so you get to know who and what lives in this area of the ocean, why that habitat is struggling and what we can all do about it. At the end of the course you'll learn about the creature you're asked to identify using BiiGLE Party, and finally you'll receive a link to this custom-built online tool.

This content covers a cold-seep ecosystem located at ~ 870 m depth in a submarine canyon in the NE Pacific, off Vancouver Island (Barkley Canyon, BC, Canada).

Data collected by ICM-CISC - Barcelona

OBSEA is a cabled seafloor observatory located 4 km off the Vilanova i la Geltru coast in a fishing protected area. It is connected to the coast by an energy and communications mixed cable.

Data collected by UPC OBSEA, Barcelona

The dim light habitats of the Aegean Sea, Greece. The relatively low levels of coastal development of Greece’s 18,000km of coastling, makes the littoral zone ecosystems of the Greek seas and the northeastern Mediterranean one of the most biodiverse marine zones of the entire basin.

Data collected by Archipelagos Insitutie of Marine Conservation

This content covers the west continental shelf, Svalbard, Norway, the Arctic

Data was collected by Into The Deep Associate Partner, Alfred Wegner Institute, Germany

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