News Coverage Archive 2000-2003

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2003

November 13, 2003 - "Scientists Collaborate to Explore Undersea World" - Voice of America - http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=9F2C524E-3199-4F26-A80E6169B....

October 25, 2003 - "Ocean depths reveal a weird world" - Guardian (at theage.com) - www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/24/1066974312706.html.

October 24, 2003 - "How many fish in the sea? About 20,000 species" - CTV.ca - www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1066928421679_62337621//?hu....

October 24, 2003 - "5,000 new species may be teeming in the seas" - Cape Times - www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20031024075835984C316406.

 
October 24, 2003 - "How Many Fish In The Sea? Census Of Marine Life Launches First Report" - Science Daily - www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031024064333.htm.

October 24, 2003 - "Scientists expect as many as 5,000 new fish species in census of oceans" - ENN (Associated Press) - www.enn.com/news/2003-10-24/s_9754.asp.

October 24, 2003 - "New light shed on ocean diversity" - BBC Nature News - www.bbc.co.uk/nature/news/news.shtml.


CNN - Ocean census finds 3 new species a week - http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/10/23/marine.census.ap/index.html


BBC - Ocean census discovers new fish - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210544.stm
MSNBC - Ocean census surfaces new species - http://www.msnbc.com/news/984054.asp


CBS - Plenty Of Fish Species In The Sea - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/23/tech/main579666.shtml


San Jose Mercury News - Study finds oceans full of secrets - http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7092340.htm


October 23, 2003 - "Scientists take $1-billion census of marine life" - CBC News - www.cbc.ca/storyview/CBC/2003/10/23/marine031023.
 
October 23, 2003 - "Scientists count world's marine life and expect as many as 5,000 new fish species" - Associated Press - www.ajc.com/news/content/news/science/1003/23marinelife.html.
Associated Press story from September 11, 2003

"Unprecedented Census of the Sea Begins" ("pdf" format, 42k) - coml.org/medres/aparticle1.pdf

"Biologists Open Global Marine Life Census" - Washington Post, DC - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12775-2003Sep15.html


"10-year survey of life below could cost $1 billion" - MSNBC - http://www.msnbc.com/news/965650.asp


September 10, 2003 - "Ecomar - Inventur des Meeresökosystems" - Germany's Television Channel WDR 5. - www.wdr5.de/leonardo/beitrag.phtml?sendung_id=12&beitrag_id=31795


September/October 2003 - "What Future for the Oceans?" - Foreign Affairs (paragraph on the Census: p. 149). - www.comlsecretariat.org/iDuneDownload.dll?GetFile?AppId=103&FileID=249794&Anchor=&ext=.pdf


September 2003 - Article on NaGISA Project - Yomiuri Newspaper (in Japanese). - www.fserc.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/main/centernews/news010.PDF


August 31, 2003, New Scientist.com

"Trawling Seamounts Threatens Oceans Biodiversity" by Stephen Leahy - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994097

August 28, 2003, SciScoop Exploring Tomorrow

"Seamounts Endangered by Trawlers" by Ricky James - http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/8/28/7103/13382

August 27, 2003, The Register-Guard

"Biologists Consider Ban on Trawling" by Winston Ross - http://www.registerguard.com/news/2003/08/27/d1.cr.deepsea.0827.html

August 23, 2003, London Daily Telegraph

"Lost worlds of the ocean threatened by trawlers" By Roger Highfield, Science Editor - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/23/wtrawl23...

August 22, 2003, Newport News-Times

"International research conference at marine science center this weekend" - http://www.newportnewstimes.com/nt_news/general/nt_news-12.html#TopOfPag...

August 7, 2003 - "Predator diversity hotspots in the blue ocean" by Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, Ransom A. Myers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA Vol. 100: pp. 9884-9888. - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1333941100

Researchers used detailed scientific observer records from longline fisheries from the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean to document that oceanic predators, such as tuna, sharks, billfish, and sea turtles that are vulnerable to overfishing, concentrate in hotspots. Through modeling, the researchers predicted that protecting these hotspot areas from fishing would yield greater benefits for threatened species than closing any other area.

News Release from Institut fur Meereskunde an der Universitat Kiel on research published in the August Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A regarding the discovery that large oceanic predators concentrate in unique diversity hotspots much like those that exist on land and suggest these hotspots are ideal candidates for marine reserves.


July 2003 - The first version of the OBIS Schema for geo-referenced taxonomic data is now available at the OBIS website. - www.iobis.org/technical.shtml


June 2003 - On June 12-13, scientists from the CoML MAR-ECO field project conducted dives over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the MIR I&II submersibles. Read about the dives at the MAR-ECO website. - mareco.imr.no/ship/?cruise_id=7&


June 24, 2003, BBC News Online

"Weird ocean life surprises". Report by Dr. David Whitehouse, Online Science Editor.
New species of underwater life, including a giant sea spider and armoured shrimps, have been discovered by an expedition trawling in deep water northwest of New Zealand.

May 15, 2003, Nature

"Net losses: Industrialized fishing hits fish stocks" - www.nature.com/nature/links/030515/030515-1.html .

May 15, 2003, Nature

"Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities" by Ransom A. Myers and Boris Worm
For more information: http://fmap.dal.ca/newsevents.php

May 14, 2003 - "Key Ocean Fish Species Ravaged, Study Finds" - Washington Post. - www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57139-2003May14.html


May 13, 2003 - "Exploring the deep blue sea: The best oceanographers may turn out to be the animals who live there" Correspondent Larry O'Hanlon reports on the Census of Marine Life's project Tagging of Pacific Pelagic's unprecedented effort to equip 4,000 animals from 20 different species of whales, turtles, seals, birds, sharks, squid, and tuna to learn more about the ocean areas in which they travel.- Boston Globe. - www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/133/science/Exploring_the_deep_blue_sea+.shtml


April 25, 2003 - "Ocean Diversity" - Arctic Science Journeys Radio. - www.uaf.edu/seagrant/NewsMedia/03ASJ/ra/OceanDiversity.ram


April 2003 - "Squid Sensitivity" - Discover Magazine


February 17, 2003 - Article on MAR-ECO - VG NETT (in Norwegian) - www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=13829%29.


February 2003 - "Census Time for the World's Oceans" - Rodale's Scuba Diving - www.scubadiving.com/feature/news/marinecensus.shtml


January 2003 - "Sea Searchers: Scientists launch a $1 billion effort to track marine life worldwide" - Smithsonian Magazine - www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues03/jan03/sea_searchers.html


February 2003 - MAR-ECO received tremendous publicity this month. After being featured in Norway's largest newspaper, project leader Odd Aksel Bergstad was interviewed on a popular Norwegian talk show.

2002

December 22, 2002 - "The Cod Squad" - article on HMAP project in the Gulf of Maine (Portland Press Herald)

October 7, 2002 - "60 per cent of ICES species are overfished" - Fish Information & Services - fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=10-2002&day=7&id=4018&l=e&country=&special=&ndb=1


August 22, 2002 - "Is That a Salmon I Hear?" - ScienceNow - bric.postech.ac.kr/science/97now/02_8now/020822a.html


August 22, 2002 - "Census of Marine Migration Launched to Gauge Fish Stocks" - Nature (those with a subscription can read it online) - www.nature.com/


June 2002 - Census of Marine Life article in ICES Newsletter (pp.16-17) - www.ices.dk/products/newsletters/ices39.pdf


June 10, 2002 - "Researchers plunge into fish 'census'" - The Miami Herald - www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/3435677.htm


June 6, 2002 - "World ocean map goes online" - CNN.com - www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/05/oceans.atlas/index.html


June 5, 2002 - "UN Oceans Atlas Provides First Comprehensive Real-Time Tool to Observe State of World's Oceans" - U.S. Newswire Press Release - story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020605/180/1nb31.html&printer=1


March 23, 2002 - "Scientists Seek Pacific Coast Salmon Sensors" - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - search.newschoice.com/ArchiveDisplay.asp?story=d:%5Cindex%5Cnewsarchives%5Cfbk%5Cfbkmnr%5Csta%
5C20020323%5C1424810_a3fish23.txt&source=www%2Enews%2Dminer%2Ecom&puid=1346&paper=Fairbanks+Daily+News%2DMiner


March 2002 - MAR-ECO featured on March cover of Fishing News International. Subscribers can view this article online at AgraNet - www.fni.co.uk/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=agra/puboptions&PageName=LatestIssue&pubId=ag009


February 18, 2002 - "High-Tech Tags Give Scientists Tools to Track Sea Animal Movement" - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - starbulletin.com/2002/02/18/news/story8.html


February 15, 2002 - "Evolution and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Vent and Seep Invertebrates" - an article in Science 295: 1253-1257 (Those with online subscriptions can view this article at http://www.sciencemag.org/)


January 3, 2002 - "Study: Great White Sharks Are World Travelers" - Reuters - www.tunaresearch.org/Reuters_shark.html


January 3, 2002 - "Great White a Regular Visitor" - Honolulu Advertiser - the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jan/03/ln/ln51a.html


Other News:

October 2002 - ALL Species, the Sloan Foundation, and NSF are calling for all-biota inventories of major taxa. View RFP. - www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02186/nsf02186.htm

September 4, 2002 - CephBase team receives grant to create online educational portal. - coml.org/medres/href=


July 16, 2002 - CoML is in the water! Mar-Eco scientist, Mike Vecchione, set sail today to study the biodiversity of Bear Seamount. With funding from the NOAA Office of Exploration, this cruise will test scientific methods for future surveys at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.


July 10, 2002 - CoML welcomes Dr. Wolfgang Waegele's DIVA project to survey benthos of the Angola Basin as a new Affiliated Project. This ongoing project is called Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar). Visit the DIVA website for project information. - www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/spezzoo/diva/diva1.html


July 8, 2002 - CoML Scientific Steering Committee Chair, Dr. Fred Grassle, named to U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy's Scientific Advisory Panel. (press release) - www.comlsecretariat.org/iDuneDownload.dll?GetFile?AppId=103&FileID=240114&Anchor=&ext=.pdf


June 2002 CoML is the Biology Editor of the UN's newly launched Atlas of the Oceans. - www.oceanatlas.org/

2001

December 27, 2001 - "High-Tech Tummy Implants Tracking Salmon Out to Sea" - http://www.salmoninfo.org/news/tummy.htm (article originally appeared in The Vancouver Sun)

December 21, 2001 - "A Mystery Squid Found Lurking at Ocean Bottom" - The New York Times - www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/science/21SQUI.html


December 20, 2001 - "Scientists Find Strange Squid in Ocean Depths" - The Mercury News - www0.mercurycenter.com/front/docs1/070172.htm


December 20, 2001 - "Large Squid Baffles and Amuses Scientists" - ABCNews.com - abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20011220_453.html


November 7, 2001 - "Dypets hemmeligheter" – an article on the MAR-ECO project – Bergens Tidende (Norway) - www.bt.no/meninger/kronikk/article.jhtml?articleID=64587


October 31, 2001 - "Wealth of new species discovered from the abyssal plains of the Atlantic Ocean" - SpaceRef.com - www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6446


August 17, 2001 - "Study Calls Into Question Global Quotas on Bluefin Tuna" - National_Geographic.com - news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0817_bluefin2.html


July 25, 2001 - "Seamounts: Window on Ocean Biodiversity" - NPACI & SDSC Online - www.npaci.edu/online/v5.15/seamounts.html


March 19, 2001 - "Oceanic Changes a Mystery," article on the PICES workshop in Hawaii, The Honolulu Advertiser - the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Mar/19/ln/ln26jana.html


February 22, 2001 - "Ambitious bid launched for worldwide marine census" - Reuters article at Planet Ark - www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9885


February 22, 2001 - "Scientists fish for the ones that got away" - The Age - www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/22/FFXQEV0WFJC.html


February 22, 2001 - "Scientists to Record All Ocean Life" - Discovery Channel News - dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20010220/ocean.html


January 20, 2001 - "Planifican el primer censo a nivel mundial de la vida marina" - Clarin (Argentina) - ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-01-20/s-05001.htm


Other News:

March 2001 - The Report of the POGO / CoML Biological Observations of the Global Ocean Workshop (June 2001, Dartington, England) is now available. - www.comlsecretariat.org/iDuneDownload.dll?GetFile?AppId=103&FileID=23811...

February 2001 - Canadian Marine Biodiversity Workshop held 26-28 February. - www.comlsecretariat.org/Dev2Go.web?id=237216&rnd=839


December 2001 - The Census of Marine Life welcomes Dr. Ian Poiner to the Scientific Steering Committee. - www.comlsecretariat.org/Dev2Go.web?id=236878&rnd=25858

2000

November 29, 2000 - "Scientists Aim to Tell Whole Story of Marine Life" - ABCNews.com - abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dyehard001129.html

November 16, 2000 - "Scientists plan to tag sea animals with sensors to get look at life in ocean" - San Francisco Chronicle - www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/16/MN110279.DTL


June 2, 2000 - "Grants Kick Off Ambitious Count of All Ocean Life" - an article in "Science" magazine 288:1575-1576 (Those with online subscriptions can view this article at the Science website) - www.sciencemag.org/