«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP. (sciencedaily.com)
the 2017 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize. (petesgrillandpizza.com)
Over the past decade, awareness of the abundance of life in the watery pores of the deep biosphere has turned microbiology into a primary focus of scientific ocean drilling. (sciencemag.org)