Costa Rica Rocks!

An interdisciplinary team of scientists that returned March 8 from a research cruise off Costa Rica say their 16-day expedition has yielded a wealth of tantalizing new scientific data, including a high probability that some of the species they encountered have never before been studied.

The CRROCKS! (Costa Rica Rocks) research cruise, led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Indiana State University, was one of the first scientific expeditions concentrating on the biological aspects of rocks found at the continental margin area near Costa Rica.

See, explorations the e-magazine of Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the whole story.