skunkbear: From 2009 to 2013, the research schooner Tara traversed the globe, carrying a multination
skunkbear:From 2009 to 2013, the research schooner Tara traversed the globe, carrying a multinational team of scientists. They surveyed the critical foundation of the marine food chain (a foundation we know dangerously little about): plankton, bacteria, protists, viruses and small animals. All in all, they found more 35,000 different kinds of organisms — many of them previously unknown to science. Read all about it!Top photo: Tara in the Arctic Ocean (A.Deniaud/Tara Expéditions)Photo 2: Plankton collected in the Pacific Ocean. (Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara Expéditions)Photo 3: A male Sapphirina copepod collected in the Mediterranean sea. (Christian Sardet/CNRS/Sharif Mirshak/Parafilms/Tara Expéditions)Photo 4: A tinycrustacean copepod, a spider crab larva, an amphipod, a baby squid, a Phronima amphipod, andan Atlantic pteropod mollusc. (Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara Expéditions)Photo 5: A small medusa (a relative of the jellyfish) collected in the Mediterranean sea. (bepoles/Tara Expéditions)Map of the voyage, based on a graphic by bepoles/Tara Expéditions. -- source link
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