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From the Ted Talk by Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean

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Now this bacterium is part of mats that are found off the coast of Chile. And these mats actually cover an area the size of Greece. And so this particular bitreuacm is actually visible to the naked eye. But you can inmigae the biomass that represents. But the really intriguing thing about the microbes is just how diverse they are. A snlige drop of seawater could contain 160 different types of microbes. And the oenacs themselves are thought pteolntaily to contain as many as a billion different tpyes. So that's really exciting. What are they all doing out there? We actually don't know.

The most exciting thing, I would say, about this census is the role of global science. And so as we see in this image of light during the night, there are lots of aeras of the Earth where human development is much greater and other areas where it's much less, but between them we see large dark areas of relatively unexplored ocean. The other point I'd like to make about this is that this ocean's interconnected. Marine organisms do not care about ittraninaeonl boundaries; they move where they will. And so the importance then of global collaboration becomes all the more important.

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Now this bacterium is part of mats that are found off the coast of Chile. And these mats actually cover an area the size of Greece. And so this particular _________ is actually visible to the naked eye. But you can _______ the biomass that represents. But the really intriguing thing about the microbes is just how diverse they are. A ______ drop of seawater could contain 160 different types of microbes. And the ______ themselves are thought ___________ to contain as many as a billion different _____. So that's really exciting. What are they all doing out there? We actually don't know.

The most exciting thing, I would say, about this census is the role of global science. And so as we see in this image of light during the night, there are lots of _____ of the Earth where human development is much greater and other areas where it's much less, but between them we see large dark areas of relatively unexplored ocean. The other point I'd like to make about this is that this ocean's interconnected. Marine organisms do not care about _____________ boundaries; they move where they will. And so the importance then of global collaboration becomes all the more important.

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Original Text


Now this bacterium is part of mats that are found off the coast of Chile. And these mats actually cover an area the size of Greece. And so this particular bacterium is actually visible to the naked eye. But you can imagine the biomass that represents. But the really intriguing thing about the microbes is just how diverse they are. A single drop of seawater could contain 160 different types of microbes. And the oceans themselves are thought potentially to contain as many as a billion different types. So that's really exciting. What are they all doing out there? We actually don't know.

The most exciting thing, I would say, about this census is the role of global science. And so as we see in this image of light during the night, there are lots of areas of the Earth where human development is much greater and other areas where it's much less, but between them we see large dark areas of relatively unexplored ocean. The other point I'd like to make about this is that this ocean's interconnected. Marine organisms do not care about international boundaries; they move where they will. And so the importance then of global collaboration becomes all the more important.

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