Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census Experts
Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census
Scientists intrigued by life around hottest-ever seafloor vent;
Manhattan-sized school of fish off New Jersey coast;
More new than familiar species on Antarctic seafloor
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, highlights of which were released today.
They include life adapted to brutal conditions around 407°C fluids spewing from a seafloor vent (the hottest ever discovered), a mighty microbe 1 cm in diameter, mysterious 1.8 kg (4 lb) lobsters off the Madagascar coast, a US school of fish the size of Manhattan Island, and more unfamiliar than familiar species turned up beneath 700 meters of Antarctic ice.
Download PDFs of the translated text for the 2006 CoML Highlights Report:
Download a PDF of the Press Release translated into Portuguese.
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"Fish with Chips," Carnivorous Sponges, and Eerie Underwater Dead Zone Among Top Highlights at Census Mid-Point
The mid-point findings of the ten-year Census of Marine Life were made public on December 14th in a release that covered everything from a coastal fish tracking that is using implanted chips to record the movement of endangered salmon to carnivorous sponges found among new species in the Southern Ocean Abyss to an
eerie underwater dead zone at the 2004 Tsunami epicenter. The Census, which began in 2000 with about 250 collaborators, now has some 1,700 experts from 73 nations involved in 17 projects are today working to produce the 1st Census by 2010.
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Making Ocean Life Count
Burgeoning marine life database tops 5 million records, 38,000 species; Scientists add over 4 million new records, 25,000 species in 2004;
Exponential growth of OBIS tops Census highlights in 2004
CONTACTS:
Terry Collins, 416-538-8712
Darlene Trew Crist, 401-295-1356
Sara Hickox, 401-874-6277
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Annual Highlight Report for CoML 2004
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