Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SCAN-Deep (Systematic Characterisation and Archiving of megafauNa on a regional scale in a Deep-sea area threatened by mining)

The worldwide demand for metals and rare-earth elements is increasing, fuelled by developingeconomies and the growth of high-technology green industries. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, a ~6 million km2 region of abyssal deep sea...