TARA OCEANS completes 60,000-mile journey to map marine biodiversity
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 12:30
in Earth & Climate
The two-and-a-half-year TARA OCEANS expedition finishes on 31 March when the ship and crew reach Lorient, France. The arrival completes a journey of 60 000 miles across all the world's major oceans to sample and investigate microorganisms in the largest ecosystem on the planet, reports Eric Karsenti in an editorial published today in Molecular Systems Biology.