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Kevin Zelnio -
Last week we kicked off our online class with an introduction to the deep sea environment. Before we continue on to spend a bit of time talking about the history of deep-sea exploration, I want to discuss the current state of marine biology.
An exciting and huge initiative to catalog the diversity of our oceans just concluded last Fall called the Census of Marine Life.
When we discuss what explorers and scientists were doing in the Victorian era, keep this knowledge in the back of your mind and cross-reference it occasionally.
You’ll find that while our methods have remained very similar throughout 200 years, our technology has allowed us to peer further and deeper with each passing year.
Part of the key is identifying those areas to explore which will give us the greatest discoveries.
You will see very quickly that we are not running out questions to ask or places to explore, despite the success of initiative like the Census, or great explorations like the Challenger expeditions in the late 1800s.
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