This 3-day capacity building event on cold-water coral taxonomy took place at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, on 15-17 October 2022 (directly after the iAtlantic General Assembly).

The course was led by Alberto Lindner and Renata Arantes, with support from Marcelo Kitahara and Livia Loiola, covering concepts on deep-water coral taxonomy, as well as diversity and distribution, with focus on taxonomy and hands on experiences observing deep-water coral specimens, particularly from Brazil. We were delighted to work in partnership with the Marine Animal Forest of the World (MAF-WORLD) COST Action on this training event.

You can download the detailed workshop programme here (PDF).