HARROW: The Tara Oceans project is revealing new data on tiny ocean creatures and the critical roles they play in maintaining Earth as a livable planet. ‘Life in the ocean is a little less murky than before,’ says one scientist.
Call it the Microbe World Cruise, a 3-year project to take a census of the smallest denizens of the deep – from viruses and bacteria to tiny plankton.
The information gathered holds the potential to revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the interactions among these marine no-see-ums and the critical roles they play in maintaining Earth as a livable planet, researchers say.
How big are those roles? For starters, “taking care of every other breath you take is pretty big,” says Linda Amaral Zettler, a microbial ecologist at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., noting that plankton supply half of the atmosphere’s oxygen.
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