Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life Making Ocean Life Count

摘要

Three fundamental questions of science are: what do we know, what must we do, and what can we hope for? The first of the trilogy seems best anchored in the scientific process and to be the most straightforward. Unsurprisingly, scientists are among the first to admit that we actually don't know very much at all. This, of course, hampers proceeding to the next two 'questions'. In the biological sciences this discrepancy is perhaps nowhere more evident than when dealing with life in the sea. Extracting information from the sea is difficult and expensive, but without this information the next steps in this field remain tentative.