The life of a marine biologist is not an easy one. You risk losing your lunch every time you go out on the open sea, and come back with only a few snippets of evidence about what is happening beneath the waves. Now all that is set to change with the setting up of an underwater observatory linking an array of sea-floor webcams, microphones, sensors, robotic rovers and scientific instruments. Together they will give biologists an unprecedented round-the-clock picture of the marine life and geology of the north-eastern Pacific ocean.
Called Neptune, the network is the brainchild of a Canadian-US…
