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Heidi M. Sosik: The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone

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What will we find in the twilight zone: the vast, mysterious, virtually unexplored realm hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface? Heidi M. Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wants to find out. In this wonder-filled talk, she shares her plan to investigate these uncharted waters, which may hold a million new species and 90 percent of the world's fish biomass, using submersible technology. What we discover there won't just astound us, Sosik says — it will help us be better stewards of the world's oceans. (This ambitious plan is one of the first ideas of The Audacious Project, TED's new initiative to inspire global change.)

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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;animals;biosphere;biodiversity;biology;chemistry;climate change;environment;future;nature;oceans;science;water;marine biology;TED2017;2018

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