Census of Marine Life explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic, Antarctic
Census of Marine Life Washington DC 15-Feb-2009 Earth’s unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a […]
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Scientists Report Major Steps Towards 1st Census of Marine Life
Census of Marine Life Washington DC 9-Nov-2008 Among report’s revelations: Antarctic ancestry of many octopus species, behemoth bacteria, colossal sea
Explorers find hundreds of undescribed corals, other species on familiar Australian reefs
Census of Marine Life Washington D.C. 18-Sep-2008 Hundreds of new kinds of animal species surprised international researchers systematically exploring waters
Students Use DNA Barcodes to Unmask “Mislabeled” Fish at Grocery Stores, Restaurants
Rockefeller University / Trinity School New York 22-Aug-08 Two New York City high school friends, curious about new DNA barcoding
Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010
Census of Marine Life Washington D.C. 25-Jun-2008 World Register of Marine Species inaugurated with first 122,500 validated names; over 56,000
Marine explorers marvel at ‘Brittlestar City’ on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica
Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-May-2008 Millions of starfish-like creatures catch passing food in 4 km/h current; cod shelter
Scientists to explore life’s mysteries through encyclopedic ‘macroscope’
Encyclopoedia of Life / Smithsonian Institution The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled today
Marine scientists warn human safety, prosperity depend on better ocean observing system
Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Plymouth, UK, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 25-Nov-2007 Speedy
Amid spiralling government interest, world’s top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei
Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About
Tuna Past and Present
Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration,
Creating a Window on ‘Oceans in Motion’: Academic, Science, Engineering Experts Illuminating Sea Life Conditions, Migrations
26 June 06 Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of
Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
May 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in
Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once
Potential new bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
Rockefeller University / University of Guelph 18-Feb-2007 Scientists complete DNA portrait of US, Canadian bird species, Guyanese bats At unprecedented
Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts
Census of Marine Life 10-Dec-2006 A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge
End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
13-Nov-2006 University of Helsinki / Rockefeller University, New York ‘Growing stock’ expanding in most forested nations, even with modest prosperity
Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria
31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the
‘Fish with chips’ reporting from ocean among highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
14 Dec 05 Census of Marine Life A physconect siphonophore, Marrus sp., photographed during NOAA’s Arctic “Hidden Ocean” expedition in
Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history
23 Oct 05 Census of Marine Life Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help
Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
29 Jul 05 Census of Marine Life A historic expedition of Census of Marine Life explorers to the planet’s most
First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf
1-Mar-2005 Census of Marine Life Once a dominant species, the volume of cod on the Scotian Shelf has plunged 96%
Census of Marine Life – Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records
23 Nov 04 Census of Marine Life Even in Europe and the best studied seas, the rapid ongoing discovery of