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Why bother understanding the Indian Ocean? the fastest of all oceans, and the surrounding populations are also the fastest growing, placing increasing pressures on natural systems. ‘Why bother understanding the Indian Ocean?’ is on 6 October in Tavistock Guildhall - see What’s On for more details. In October, Peter Burkill will be giving a Tavistock Heritage Trust talk about why we need to understand the Indian Ocean, the least studied and arguably the most sensitive, of all our oceans. The Indian Ocean’s core temperature is rising
Seven years ago, when Peter was Professor of Ocean Science at the University of Plymouth, he started an international programme of research on the Indian Ocean. In his research, he has travelled widely, and is now also a Nikon sponsored wildlife photographer with a particular penchant for pine martens. Peter continues…
I was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1950, growing up on the beaches of Malaya and diving before there were any diving qualifications. This was to help my father who was working on seaweeds and my job was to harvest from the offshore reefs. So oceans, wildlife and wild places have always interested me. My first degree is in biology and my PhD was gained from Southampton University in ocean science. I then moved in 1975 to Plymouth to join the Plymouth Marine Laboratory where I eventually held a prestigious Individual Merit post. In that time, I set up the first marine flow cytometry facility in Europe. I should explain that flow cytometry was a laser-based technique devised for analysing cancer in human blood. I figured that human
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