we sailed from Antarctica to the equator to learn how bacteria affect ocean health
- Written by Eric Jorden Raes, Postdoctoral researcher Ocean Frontier Institute, Dalhousie University
ShutterstockAboard an Australian research vessel, the RV Investigator, we sailed for 63 days from Antarctica’s ice edge to the warm equator in the South Pacific and collected 387 water samples.
Our goal? To determine how the genetic code of thousands of different micro-organisms can provide insights into the ocean’s functional...





