Sentences with phrase «tara oceans scientists»
During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.
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«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.
Scientists will spend years analyzing the catch, Tara Oceans co-director Eric Karsenti said here today at the Euroscience Open Forum, a biennial science and policy meeting.
Scientists aboard the Tara Oceans vessel prepare to lower a CTD device into the blue depths.
The project originates from the work of biologist Christian Sardet, who, in his Plankton Chronicle, disclosed to the public the research made by a group of scientists who sailed the oceans from 2009 to 2013 on board the schooner Tara.
In 2013, as part of a seven - month circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean, scientists aboard the research vessel Tara documented a profusion of tiny pieces of plastic in the Greenland and Barents seas, where the final limb of the Gulf Stream system delivers Atlantic waters northward.