The purpose of the COBRA Master Class is to train early career COBRA Fellows in deep-sea expedition leadership. This course equips Fellows with the skills and tools to successfully design, propose, and execute deep-sea oceanographic field research, with a collaborative, just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive approach. Fellows also contribute to the development of an open-access “how to” manual based on course materials, receiving co-author credit for this collaborative activity.

Find out more from the Master Class Fellows and Instructors in these publications:

• COBRA Master Class: Providing deep-sea expedition leadership training to accelerate early career advancement. Frontiers in Marine Science: Ocean Observation: Community Case Study, 2023.

• Transferable Knowledge in Deep-Sea Expedition Leadership: Take-homes from the 2023 COBRA Master Class. DOSI/DSBS Deep Sea Life, 2023.

• Accelerating Deep-Sea Expedition Leadership via a New COBRA Master Class. DOSI/DSBS Deep Sea Life, 2023.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 2114593. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.