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Nature 428, 681 (15 April 2004) | doi:10.1038/428681a

Push to protect whales leaves seafloor research high and dry

See associated Correspondence: Stocker, Nature 430, 291 (July 2004)

Rex Dalton

A prestigious US research ship's schedule is in disarray after geophysicists were forced to abandon two recent projects because of concerns that they would harm marine mammals.The Maurice Ewing — a 2,000-tonne vessel operated by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, New York state — has been docked in Mobile, Alabama, for the past two months after the cruises were blocked.

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