https://medium.com/@NautilusMag/the-ocean-gets-big-data-a23b31525d97

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“I think that for some people,” says Peter Girguis, a deep-sea microbial physiologist at Harvard University, “the ocean seems passé — that the days of Jacques Cousteau are behind us.” He begs to differ. Even though space exploration, he says, “seems…