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  • 26 August 2010 - “Another milestone for marine science's greatest endeavour”, an article from the Research Information Centre.

  • 2 August 2010 - What lives in the Sea? - Census of Marine Life publishes historic roll call of species in 25 key ocean areas. View photos and video gallery. Also see the articles in the Census papers collection, freely available at the Census' Public Library of Science (PLoS) webpage.

    Read Australian researcher Alan Butler'spaper Marine Biodiversity in the Australian Region listed in that collection - “Marine Biodiversity and Biogeography – Regional Comparisons of Global Issues”.

  • The Census Goes Social - Keep abreast of Census information and connect with network colleagues by joining the Census Facebook page, following us on Twitter, or subscribing to the Census YouTube channel.

  • The Galatee Film Oceans is scheduled for release on Earth Day 2010 (22 April)

  • 22 March 2010 - "Census under the sea" The Boston Globe

  • 22 November 2009 - The deep sea world beyond sunlight - From the edge of darkness to the black abyss: marine scientists census 17,500+ species and counting. Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight – creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 meters (~3 miles) below the ocean waves

  • The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) program was formally accepted as a program of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) program. The resolution as approved by the General Assembly of IOC during its meeting in Paris on 16-25 June 2009.

  • 15 February 2009 - Census of Marine Life explorers find hundreds of identical species thrive in both Arctic and Antarctic

Australia

London

  • Census of Marine of Life reports its findings in October 2010 at the Royal Society in London

    The 10-year international Census of Marine of Life (CoML) involving scientists from 80 nations, reports its findings in October 2010 at the Royal Society in London. Scientists around the world (including Australia) are busy preparing their findings for special issues of journals. A series of press releases is planned for distribution in the next two years, and CoML is seeking additional opportunities to disseminate results.

New Zealand

  • 3 September 2008 - Censeam - The submarine metropolis of Brittlestar City

    To appreciate the most dramatic of the world's cities, we raise our eyes to the skyline. But last April a team of marine scientists aboard RV Tangaroa looked down and discovered a new city. For the first time scientists saw the new metropolis, sitting atop a seamount taller than the world's highest building and crossed by the superhighway that is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. They nicknamed it Brittlestar City.

  • Another Censeam Expedition - A research cruise departed Wellington, New Zealand on 12 June 2009 with the RV Tangaroa once again carrying CenSeam researchers to the Graveyard Seamounts on the Chatham Rise in the South Pacific. This cruise aims to study the biodiversity of the region and to continue research initiated on earlier cruises. Full details of the cruise and a ship-to-shore log can be found on the CenSeam website: Return to the Graveyard.

Norway

  • Wednesday 21 October - MAR-ECO final project workshop - attend the online broadcast "A deep ocean odyssey" starting at 11:50 am Western European time (or 8.50 pm Sydney time) on Wednesday 21 October - listen to popular science talks, live music, see stunning images of deepwater animals - including a final statement on the CoML activities leading up to 2010.

Deep Ocean Odyssey