World Film Premiere: Mining the Deep Sea

Mining materials 15,000 feet below sea could help secure a low-carbon future - 
but at what cost?

You're invited to a world-premiere screening of a film about deep-sea mining produced by John Freidah, followed by a panel discussion with experts from the film. 

Thursday December 5
5:00pm-7:00pm
Room 4-370

Reception to follow

Hosted by MIT MechE, MIT ESI and MIT Policy Lab

Watch film trailer: https://youtu.be/92JDVW0_hpU

Expert Panelists

• Thomas Peacock
  Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
   
• Richard Roth
  Director, MIT's Materials Systems Laboratory
   
• Mathew Alford
  Professor of Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego
   
• Chris Brown
  Consultant, International Seabed Authority
   
• John Freidah
  Filmmaker, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 
   
• Cindy Van Dover
  Professor of Biological Oceanography, Duke University