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Sea-surfing ‘wave glider’ robot deployed to help track white sharks in the Pacific
Posted on August 10, 2012 | No CommentsBlock Lab, Stanford University, Monterey Bay, CA, USA 16-Aug-2012 New high-tech ocean observers debut above ‘The Blue Serengeti’; ’Shark Net’ app lets public follow tagged animals in real time Monterey Bay,... -
Major threats foreseen due to Europe’s changing marine environments
Posted on September 15, 2011 | No CommentsProject CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 13 September 2011 Sea levels, erosion top public... -
How many species on Earth? 8.7 million
Posted on August 23, 2011 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC 23 Aug 2011 Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). That is a new, estimated total number of species on... -
Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top Pacific Ocean predators reveals remarkable... -
Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean, scientists urge
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsPartnership for Observation of the Global Oceans Plymouth, UK 1-Oct-2010 ‘It is past time to get serious about measuring what’s happening to the seas around us’ The ocean surface is... -
First Census Shows Life in Planet Ocean is Richer, More Connected, More Altered than Expected
Posted on October 5, 2010 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC, USA 4-Oct-2010 Culminating a 10-year exploration, 2,700 scientists from 80 nations report first Census of Marine Life, revealing what, where, and how much lives... -
Census of Marine Life publishes historic roll call of species in 25 key world areas
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington, DC 2-Aug-2010 Representing the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity’s most ancient questions — “what lives in the sea?” — Census... -
Explorers Inventory Hard-to-See Sea Life: Tiny but Mighty Microbes, Plankton, Larvae, Burrowers — Keys to Earth’s Food and Respiratory Systems
Posted on May 7, 2010 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 18-Apr-2010 Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor; Scientists puzzle out Neptune’s riotous diversity of tiny creatures; “In no... -
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
Posted on November 29, 2009 | No Comments22-Nov-2009 Census of Marine Life Washington DC Deep sea teeming with species that have never known sunlight Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution... -
Ocean life in olden days: Researchers upend modern notions of ‘natural’ animal sizes, abundance
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 24-May-2009 Census of Marine Life historians reconstruct images of past sea life that boggle today’s imagination Before oil hunters in the early 1800s harpooned... -
Census of Marine Life explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic, Antarctic
Posted on February 18, 2009 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 15-Feb-2009 Earth’s unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who... -
Scientists Report Major Steps Towards 1st Census of Marine Life
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 9-Nov-2008 Among report’s revelations: Antarctic ancestry of many octopus species, behemoth bacteria, colossal sea stars, mammoth mollusks, more In a report on progress towards... -
Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs
Posted on October 9, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington D.C. 18-Sep-2008 Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters off two islands on the Great Barrier Reef and a... -
Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010
Posted on June 27, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington D.C. 25-Jun-2008 World Register of Marine Species inaugurated with first 122,500 validated names; over 56,000 aliases for ocean species identified Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists... -
Marine explorers marvel at ‘Brittlestar City’ on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica
Posted on May 19, 2008 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life Washington DC 18-May-2008 Millions of starfish-like creatures catch passing food in 4 km/h current; cod shelter from ‘rattling’ current in folds of huge bubblegum coral See... -
Tuna Past and Present
Posted on August 26, 2007 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration, breeding secrets of declining population Ocean historians affiliated with the... -
Creating a Window on ‘Oceans in Motion’: Academic, Science, Engineering Experts Illuminating Sea Life Conditions, Migrations
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No Comments26 June 06 Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of marine conditions and the migrations of fish and ocean animals... -
Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No CommentsMay 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in food chain, world climate Census of Marine Life scientists trawled... -
Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
Posted on February 25, 2007 | No Comments25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion... -
Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts
Posted on December 10, 2006 | No CommentsCensus of Marine Life 10-Dec-2006 A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census of Marine Life in 2006,... -
Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria
Posted on July 31, 2006 | No Comments31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions about microbial lifeand evolution in... -
‘Fish with chips’ reporting from ocean among highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
Posted on December 14, 2005 | No Comments14 Dec 05 Census of Marine Life A physconect siphonophore, Marrus sp., photographed during NOAA’s Arctic “Hidden Ocean” expedition in support of the Census of Marine Life. (c) 2005, Kevin... -
Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history
Posted on October 23, 2005 | No Comments23 Oct 05 Census of Marine Life Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help plot the shifting harvest of marine species, according to a... -
Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
Posted on July 5, 2005 | No Comments29 Jul 05 Census of Marine Life A historic expedition of Census of Marine Life explorers to the planet’s most northern reaches has revealed a surprising density and diversity of... -
First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf
Posted on March 1, 2005 | No Comments1-Mar-2005 Census of Marine Life Once a dominant species, the volume of cod on the Scotian Shelf has plunged 96% since the 1850s, according to a landmark research to be... -
Census of Marine Life – Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records
Posted on November 23, 2004 | No Comments23 Nov 04 Census of Marine Life Even in Europe and the best studied seas, the rapid ongoing discovery of new marine species shows no end in sight, according to... -
Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
Posted on August 5, 2004 | No Comments05 Aug 04 Census of Marine Life Exploring life in the mid-Atlantic at various depths down to 4 km (2.5 miles), 60 scientists from 13 countries on a two-month expedition... -
Melting ice cap gives urgency to new Census of Marine Life project in Arctic Ocean
Posted on June 24, 2004 | No Comments24 Jun 04 Census of Marine Life A new ‘Census of Marine Life’ project based in Alaska with global partners seeks to find lifeforms in the world’s oldest seawater. Full... -
How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
Posted on October 23, 2003 | No Comments23 Oct 03 Census of Marine Life An estimated 5,000 previously unknown ocean fish species and hundreds of thousands of other marine life forms are yet to be discovered, according...