The Census of Marine Life (CoML) came in #4 on Time Magazine’s 2007 Top 10 Scientific Discoveries.  CoML is a program managed by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.  CoML is a growing global network of researchers in about 80 nations engaged in a 10-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the world’s oceans - past, present and future.

The recognition came specifically for CoML’s Antarctic project CAML - Census of Antarctic Marine Life - and their work in the Weddell Sea, which made the cover of Nature on 17 May 2007.  The CoML researchers discovered 700 new species of organisms. The Top 10 Scientific Discoveries list mentioning CoML can be read online at the Time Magazine web site:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204_1686252_1690934,00.html.

For more information about CAML, please visit the CAML website (http://www.caml.aq/).  For more information on CoML, please visit www.coml.org.