Expedition Discovers Marine Treasures
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An underwater mountain that forms the world’s thirdlargest atoll has some of the richest diversity of marine life ever found in the Caribbean, according to scientists who recently explored the area. The two-week expedition in January encountered new species of fish, seaweed and other ocean life at little-studied Saba Bank Atoll, a coral-crowned seamount 250 kilometers southeast of Puerto Rico in the Dutch Windward Islands.
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Data report: total cell counts and qPCR abundance of Archaea and Bacteria in shallow subsurface marine sediments of North Pond: gravity cores collected during site survey cruise prior to IODP Expedition 336
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