NCPOR turns to AI to unlock the secrets hidden in the ocean floor
Panaji: For decades, if scientists wanted to know how the Earth’s climate behaved millions of years ago, they would have to embark on a painstaking and destructive process: drilling into ancient, mud-caked ocean floor cores and carefully picking out microscopic, fossilised shells.
These tiny creatures, known as benthic foraminifera , act as “time capsules”. By analysing their chemistry, researchers can determine what the ocean and atmosphere were like in the distant past. But the process is slow, expensive, and literally destroys the very samples scientists work so hard to recover.
These tiny creatures, known as benthic foraminifera , act as “time capsules”. By analysing their chemistry, researchers can determine what the ocean and atmosphere were like in the distant past. But the process is slow, expensive, and literally destroys the very samples scientists work so hard to recover.
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