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UrduGreg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Rouse, curator of the Scripps Benthic Invertebrate Collection, co-authored a study describing the new species in the journal PLOS ONE that was published on March 6.
Tag: Deep Sea
NSU Researcher Helps International Team Create Plan to Protect the Biodiversity of U.S. Waters
Studying the world’s oceans can be difficult – an NSU researcher lead a team that is working to do just that.
SUNY Geneseo and NOAA Ocean Exploration Bring Deep Sea to Undergrad Classroom
The article shares lessons from SUNY Geneseo’s Marine Biology course and presents a model for bringing deep-sea research into undergraduate classrooms. Access to the deep oceans is limited to a select number of researchers, in large part due to the costs of ship time.
Fishes Contribute Roughly 1.65 Billion Tons of Carbon in Feces and Other Matter Annually
Scientists have little understanding of the role fishes play in the global carbon cycle linked to climate change, but a Rutgers-led study found that carbon in feces, respiration and other excretions from fishes – roughly 1.65 billion tons annually – make up about 16 percent of the total carbon that sinks below the ocean’s upper layers.