URI oceanographer to lead return visit to least inhabited place on Earth
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 08:28
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four University of Rhode Island oceanographers depart next week for an international research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - an area that is as far from any continent as is possible to go on Earth`s surface - to look for evidence of life far beneath the seafloor.