I'd spent a year, since co-founding Scientists for EU in May 2015, battling to explain why UK science was better off in the EU.
The study was carried out jointly by closely co-operating scientists in the fields of agronomy, environmental sciences and social sciences.
Writing in the journal Nature, the co-chief scientists say their ultimate goal is to return even deeper samples - from the mantle layer below the crust.
According to Martins and co-authors, scientists had by then isolated 312 "arboviruses"—meaning spread by arthropods like mosquitoes and ticks 82 of which caused human infections, yet all but 39 were rarely observed diseases.
In 1995, M. Räsänen and co-workers, scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland, announced the preparation of xenon dihydride (HXeH), and later xenon hydride-hydroxide (HXeOH), hydroxenoacetylene (HXeCCH), and other Xe-containing molecules.
"I thought I was too old to be surprised by anything," said Dr. Ramanathan, who was co-chief scientist of the projects.
Jeff Drazen, co-chief scientist from Hawaii, said: "Many studies have rushed to the bottom of the trench but from an ecological view that is very limiting.
"From coast to the open ocean, from the shallows to the deep, from little things like microbes to large things such as fish and whales," said Patricia Miloslavich of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela and co-senior scientist of the COML.
"It was incredible," says co-chief scientist Yves Fouquet of IFREMER, an oceanographic institution in Brest, France.
PC works both on and offshore, most recently as co-chief scientist on IODP Expedition 355 in the Arabian Sea.
RT was a co-chief scientist, TI was a stratigraphic correlator, and KI, TS, and AK were sedimentologists onboard for Exp.
