This is a big week for the Census of Marine Life, highlighted by the release on 23 October of its Baseline Report. For the Report, Press Release about it, and other cool sea images and information, visit http://www.coml.org/press2/press.htm.

On 16 October the Norwegian Broadcasting Company aired a film from CoML’s June 2003 MIR submersible dives to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, as part of the prime time program ‘Schoedinger’s Cat’. Click on the appropriate line below “Lyd og Video” at the following site to download and see the short video of the 4,500 meter descent and the animals around:
http://www.nrk.no/programmer/tv/schrodingers_katt/3167110.html

Thanks to everyone who participated in our conference 9-10 October at The Rockefeller University on “The Next 1000 Years.” The conference inspired us. We are pondering what to do with the many interesting ideas put forward. More news in a few weeks.