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Asked by finnh to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 20 Jun 2011.
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Clare Woulds answered on 17 Jun 2011:
I found out about how low oxygen availability affects the activities of animals at the seafloor. We need to know about this because climate change will mean that more areas of the seafloor suffer from low oxygen.
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Gloeta Massie answered on 18 Jun 2011:
Well, right now I only have one discovery published – that anchovies can transmit a parasite that is normally found in cat poop. (Google cat poop and anchovy and you’ll see what I’m talking about.) With my current research, I’m hoping that I will discover proteins that can be used to make helpful drugs for humans in the future.
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Sean Clement answered on 20 Jun 2011:
That Coral Spawning events in Southwest Madagascar occur about two weeks later than were previously thought! This is less of a discovery, more of an observation though…
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Ozge Ozkaya answered on 20 Jun 2011:
It always looks like some scientists are amazing and make great discoveries but what people often forget is that those are the people that are in the front line but there is an army of scientists behind them, not necessarily in the same team but all the scientists that contribute to the general knowledge. The really famous ones are just the lucky ones that happen to be working on that subject when a discovery was waiting to be made. What I mean is sooner or later someone would have discovered the DNA double helix, even if it wasnt Watson and Crick. So personally I like to think I contribute 🙂
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Dave Sproson answered on 20 Jun 2011:
I’ve discovered a few things about how the ocean currents work around Greenland. However, really calling them ‘discoveries’ is perhaps overstating it a bit. Much of science is just making small improvements to our current understanding of things, and I’d put my findings in that category! Hopefully one day this may go some way to helping improve climate models and projections…
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