Three Q's

摘要

There's been little light shed on what lives in the darkest depths of the ocean-the trenches formed during the sub-duction of one tectonic plate beneath another. James Cameron's trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench has renewed public interest in these sty-gian realms, but scientists are already developing new technologies-largely unmanned-to study trench ecosystems, notes James Yoder, former Division of Ocean Sciences director for the National Science Foundation (NSF), and now Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts.