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Daniel LeDuc

Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: After the Fact, Nature, Science Magazine, BioRxiv, PeerJ, The Pew Trusts, Mondaq, NIWA, Presse-toi à gauche
Print journo turned podcast host looking for the story behind the stats on @PewTrusts' “After the Fact." Editor of Trust magazine & Trend. All views my own.
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A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

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By Xiaotong Peng, Peng Zhou, Xikun Song, Giovanni Bianucci, Mengran Du, Alberto Collareta, Zhaoming Gao, Tongtong Xie, Mingyao Teng, Daniel LeDuc, Sadie Mills, Kaiwen Ta, Jiwei Li, Taoshu Wei, Shamik DasGupta, Hao Liu, Yuan He, Wenjing Xu, Shuangquan Liu, Hanyu Zhang
| Nature Verified
Abstract Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1,2,3,4,5,6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded.
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Protist-dominated hard substrate faunas thrive at the deepest ocean depths

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By Zhipeng Lin, Hanshen Tsai, Hinano Takase, Xikun Song, Andrew J. Gooday, Dennis Gordon, Daniel LeDuc, Yike Sun, Zizhu Wang, Qian He, Zhaoming Gao, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Andrea Waeschenbach, Thomas Schwaha, Xiaolan Lin, Hanyu Zhang, Ashley A. Rowden, Hengchao Xu, Shuangquan Liu, Shun Chen, Huijie Guo, Mengran Du, Xiaotong Peng, Yustian Rovi Alfiansah
| Science Magazine Verified
Editor’s summary Abstract Supplementary Materials References and Notes Information & Authors Metrics & Citations Check Access References Figures Tables Media Share Editor’s summary Characterizing life at the deepest depths of the ocean is extremely challenging, involving sampling at depths between 9000 and 11,000 meters. Our knowledge of these communities is thus relatively limited. Song et al. report a wide array of species sampled by a manned submersible in the Kermedec and Mariana trenches.
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Pew’s Long Commitment to Strengthening Democracy

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By Daniel LeDuc
| pew.org
The United States was about half as old as it is today when the entrepreneurial Joseph Newton Pew Sr., seeking a waterfront refinery for his business, Sun Oil, found a location along the Delaware River and opened an office in Philadelphia. The move would connect the Pew family with the inspiring city that is the birthplace of the nation—and launch an enduring mission to extol, expand, and strengthen the ideals of democracy.
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