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Paul Snelgrove:
A census of the ocean

TEDGlobal 2011 · 16:47 · Filmed Jul 2011
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Oceanographer Paul Snelgrove shares the results of a ten-year project with one goal: to take a census of all the life in the oceans. He shares amazing photos of some of the surprising finds of the Census of Marine Life.

Paul Snelgrove
Marine biologist
Paul Snelgrove led the group that pulled together the findings of the Census of Marine Life — synthesizing 10 years and 540 expeditions into a book of wonders. Full bio
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Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life
Paul Snelgrove
Cambridge University Press
2010

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