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Inside the submersible Limiting Factor close to the ocean floor, Nicole Yamase and pilot/owner Victor Vescovo Photo: RNZ Pacific / Giff Johnson
Micronesian student explores floor of Marianas Trench
April 1, 2021

A PhD student from the Federated States of Micronesia has become the first person from her nation and one of the first in the world to explore the ocean floor in the southern end of the Marianas Trench. Nicole Yamase, a PhD candidate in the University of Hawaii's Marine Biology Graduate Prog

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A foram, or member of the plankton group foraminifera, is a single-celled marine animal that lives inside a protective chalky shell. Photo credit - Solvin Zankl Photography
How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry
October 4, 2019

Only 170 million years ago, new plankton evolved. Their demand for carbon and calcium permanently transformed the seas as homes for life...Complex organisms had been evolving since at least the beginning of the Cambrian period. “That’s, what, 300 million years of evolution in the Paleozoic?

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Scholarships opportunity: Our-World Underwater Society
November 10, 2018

Since 1974, the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society® has provided firsthand experiences in underwater-related disciplines to young people considering careers in the underwater world. Click on the link below for further information on marine-related scholarships offered.

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Employment Opportunity - Middle East Technical University, Turkey
May 26, 2017

Applications from all nationalities are invited for full-time tenure-track faculty positions in Middle East Technical University, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU-IMS). METU-IMS is the leading international marine science institute in Turkey with a 100% English education and research.

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