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Melissa Brodeur
Email: mbrodeur@oceanleadership.org
Melissa has contributed 6 articles for us. See below:
33 Utterly Strange Sea Animals
From alien-like isopods and vampire squid, to “fatheads” and the Dumbo octopus with flying ears, the Census of Marine Life exposed the strange creatures of the deep during its 10-year mission of discovery.
The Deep Sea World Beyond Sunlight
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.
CoML Researchers Open a Window to Oceans Past
Drawing from such unlikely sources as ships logs, tax records, literary sources, and monastery archives, marine scientists are painting a picture of past life in the global ocean.
CoML Explorers Find Hundreds of Identical Species Thrive in Both the Arctic and Antarctic
ArcOD (Arctic Ocean Diversity) and CAML (Census of Antarctic Marine Life) researchers are startled to find the Polar oceans share 235 species.
Sylvia Earle, CoML USNC Member, Receives TED Award and Makes Wish
Census of Marine Life U.S. National Committee (USNC) member and ocean advocate Sylvia Earle was awarded the prestigious 2009 TED Prize for her life long devotion and advocacy for the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it.
CoML and Ocean Layer in Google Earth Bring Ocean Information to Life
Ocean in Google Earth, which enables user to dive beneath the surface of the sea and explore the world’s oceans, was launched on February 2, 2009 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA.
