National Science Week 2020 Tue 18 Aug 2020 4:00pm – 5:00pm WA Maritime Museum Deep Blue – Meet the Scientists Q&A Date: 18 August 2020 Time: Arrive 3:45 for 4 – 5pm event recording Age: 7 – 17 years Cost: Free event. Meet marine scientists from the WA Museum at this special Q&A event. Join them as they chart their careers and describe how they ended up exploring the ocean floor thousands of metres below the surface in deep canyons off the WA coast in the RV Falkor. Ask our scientists for answers about how they came to study marine science or about their amazing journey on the Falkor. Submit your Q&A question for our scientists before the event and you could be eligible for our Science Week prize draw – a cool digital microscope! Submit your question to Win! If you would like to attend this Q&A event we will be a hosting a small in-person audience(in order to observe physical distancing requirements). You can reserve your place by clicking on the button below. Reserve Your Place. If you can’t make it in person, then stay tuned when the recording of the presentation goes up on the web later during Science Week! Anyone can ask our marine scientists a question in the Deep Blue - Meet the Scientists Q&A! However, there is a special opportunity for young people aged 7 – 17 years to submit a question as an entry within our 2020 Science Week prize draw. Bookmark and re-visit this webpage to see your questions answered and find out who becomes the lucky winner of the digital microscope prize! To start your deep blue exploration and find a question, check out the WA Museum scientists and crewmates on their recent RV Falkor adventure into the unknown … looking for marine life in the deep waters of the Ningaloo Canyons, and the Bremer Canyons. See some of the awesome expedition videos on Youtube: #NingalooCanyons #DeepCoralAdventure Week 1 Ningaloo here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C3xulQuGWI More information on the expedition: www.schmidtocean.org/cruises/schmidt-ocean-institute-2020-expeditions/