And we're letting industry run the show.

Keep that in mind.

The pyramid of ocean life ...

And Dave Gallo signed on.

If you're in IT, India, obviously, is the place to be at the moment.

In the early '70s,

Now, not so much. (Laughter)

Dr. Satoshi Takada. Marine biologist. Lieutenant Commander for the Navy since 1997.

We're only just beginning to understand how the physical oceanography and the biological oceanography come together to create a seasonal force that actually causes the upwelling that might make a hot spot a hope spot.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We have some of the partners lined up.

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

So stay tuned for further information.

An accretion itself is a huge sink of carbon dioxide.

(Laughter)

She studies marine biology.

Other people, like David Packard and Julie Packard, who were instrumental in producing the Monterey Bay aquarium to lock into people's notion that the ocean and the health of the ocean ecosystem were just as important to the economy of this area as eating the ecosystem would be.

We'll map it within hours, have the maps disseminated out to the major universities.

Well, law, Soylent, oceanography...?

Well, I could stand here for hours, but, of course, I'm not allowed to do that.

It had been waiting there since 1960 when Alister Hardy, a marine biologist, said, I think what happened, perhaps our ancestors had a more aquatic existence for some of the time.

lots of bacteria, and where the large animals are gone.

I've taken them camping in the kelp forests of California.

Algae. It infected marine life.

It provides a surface for things in the ocean, and this surface, which is covered by seaweeds and other organisms in the ocean, will become enhanced marine habitat so it increases biodiversity.

And by the time I turned 16,

I've been working on ocean pollution for quite a long time the impacts on marine life and particularly the impacts on marine mammals.

And this is what most marine scientists have seen too.

And I knew, right then, at age six, that is an animal that I want to learn more about.

I studied this emerging field of landscape ecology.

Fifty years ago, when I began exploring the ocean, no one not Jacques Perrin, not Jacques Cousteau or Rachel Carson imagined that we could do anything to harm the ocean by what we put into it or by what we took out of it.

I then, in the last few years,

And fortunately, we've been able, as IUCN, to team up with the Census of Marine Life and many of the scientists working there to actually try to translate much of this information to policymakers.

We'll look at sea level rise.

Jacques Yves Cousteau.

But what I wound up doing was bringing space scientists with us into the deep.

A strange marine creature was found recently.

We have really no idea.

For a variety of reasons they're dangerous, but we feel that OOl, this Ocean Observatory Initiative, which the National Science Foundation has begun to fund, has the potential to really transform things.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

The equalization of the oceanic

So this whole industry is unsustainable.

And that's why biodiversity data can be so valuable.

So I'm looking optimistically at our opportunities for creating a true, blue perspective for this beautiful planet.