Mankind’s view of the planet’s ocean life will be transformed for ever in 2010. That change will come from the insights gained in a ten-year, $750m project involving 2,000 scientists from 82 countries and the technological marvels they are using to see across vast reaches of the oceans and to track the travels of individual fish. Emerging from this is what Ron O’Dor, the Dalhousie University scientist who leads the Census of Marine Life, calls the “transparent ocean”, revealing what is happening in the seas in three dimensions and over time.......Click for more

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