{"id":163307,"date":"2023-05-03T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/an-ambitious-underwater-space-station-just-got-a-major-research-collaborator"},"modified":"2023-05-03T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T02:23:14","slug":"an-ambitious-underwater-space-station-just-got-a-major-research-collaborator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/an-ambitious-underwater-space-station-just-got-a-major-research-collaborator","title":{"rendered":"An ambitious underwater \u2018space station\u2019 just got a major research collaborator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ambitious-underwater-space-station-just-got-a-major-research-collaborator2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it will be signing a new research agreement with Proteus Ocean Group, which has been drawing up ambitious plans to build a roomy underwater research facility that can host scientists for long stays while they study the marine environment up close.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, called Proteus, is the brainchild of Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of Jacques Cousteau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn PROTEUS\u2122 we will have unbridled access to the ocean 24\/7, making possible long-term studies with continuous human observation and experimentation,\u201d Cousteau, founder of Proteus Ocean Group, said in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/noaa-proteus-ocean-group-to-explore-uses-of-groundbreaking-underwater-lab\">press release<\/a>. \u201cWith NOAA\u2019s collaboration, the discoveries we can make \u2014 in relation to climate refugia, super corals, life-saving drugs, micro environmental data tied to climate events and many others \u2014 will be truly groundbreaking. We look forward to sharing those stories with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it will be signing a new research agreement with Proteus Ocean Group, which has been drawing up ambitious plans to build a roomy underwater research facility that can host scientists for long stays while they study the marine environment up close. The facility, called Proteus, is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}