EarthRef.org Digital Archive (ERDA) -- Lesson 4- Human Impacts in the Deep Sea

Description
Human activity has an important impact on all submarine environments, including the mesopelagic zone. This lesson introduces students to the different impacts that humans have on deep sea environments, challenging them to connect the link between human actions on land to remote deep-sea environments. The deep sea is hard to see and study, and therefore commonly overlooked or ignored, but is increasingly impacted negatively by human actions. The students are further called upon to develop their own creative solutions to address human impacts in the deep sea.

The assignment for this lesson is to create a blog post (this could instead be a written essay) that addresses the following:

(1) How has scientistsâ¿¿ understanding of the deep sea changed since the first deep sea expedition?
(2) In what ways are the deep seas being impacted by humans?
(3) Choose three impacts. Suggest a solution for each, and explain why you think it will be effective.