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Scientists win funding for Azores deep sea expedition
A team led by the Okeanos Research Center at the University of the Azores has secured funding for the Eurofleets + project to carry out a scientific expedition to areas of the deep sea never visited before .
The funding now guaranteed by the Deep Sea Research Group of the Okeanos (research center) of the University of the Azores will allow a scientific expedition to explore unknown areas of the Mid-Atlantic Dorsal, over a period of 17 days , says researcher Telmo Mourato, who will lead the mission.
The Mid-Atlantic Dorsal is a volcanic mountain range that extends from the Arctic to Antarctica, being the dominant topographic structure of the Atlantic Ocean and the most extensive mountain range in the world. The expedition will map the bottoms of this region and characterise the coral communities and sponges that inhabit the ridges and seamounts in Dorsal. It also intends to identify the environmental factors that ....

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