On May 2, at McGill University, a public lecture entitled, Arctic Ocean: What Lives Under the Ice, will be delivered by Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Professor at the University of Bremen and Group leader of the Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology. This public lecture is organized jointly with the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Montreal.