{"id":242551,"date":"2016-12-15T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=242551"},"modified":"2016-12-15T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:02:04","slug":"marine-scientists-talks-marianas-trench-rotary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/marine-scientists-talks-marianas-trench-rotary\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine scientists talks about Marianas Trench at Rotary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242553\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rotary-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-242553\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rotary-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Andrew Thaler speaks about the different biological aspects residing within the Marianas Trench during a presentation to members of the Saipan Rotary Club at the Hyatt Regency Saipan on Dec. 13. (Michael T. Santos)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242553\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Andrew Thaler speaks about the different biological aspects residing within the Marianas Trench during a presentation to members of the Saipan Rotary Club at the Hyatt Regency Saipan on Dec. 13. (Michael T. Santos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marine scientist and blogger Dr. Andrew Thaler treated members of Rotary Club of Saipan to a presentation on the biology of the famed Marianas Trench.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m here with Angelo Villagomez and Rick MacPherson and we\u2019re just traveling around to discuss a lot of the science that is going on in the Marianas Trench, a lot of the biodiversity out there, and exciting things going on around the Northern Mariana Islands,\u201d he said at the group\u2019s weekly meeting on Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Thaler has enabled local enthusiasts to navigate a miniature replica of a deep-sea device used to explore trenches in the ocean. He also educates people on information found in the Marianas Trench as well as its significance. He will be leaving next week to do the same on Tinian and Rota.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe deep ocean is a big unknown. It is out of sight, it\u2019s out of mind. We don\u2019t actually have the tools to get into the bottom of the trench. We had four vehicles in the last 80 years go to the bottom; none of them are available today. One is retired and others were lost in a variety of ways. So half of the Marianas Trench is beyond access to human technology,\u201d Thaler said.<\/p>\n<p>The Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world\u2019s ocean and is located in the Western Pacific. At its deepest point, it is about 11,000 meters deep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you take Mt. Everest and you drop it in the Marianas Trench, there will still be three kilometers of water on top of it,\u201d Thaler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at how biological communities are connected across the Western Pacific Ocean and how human impacts can affect them as well as how resilient the communities are to human interactions,\u201d he said when asked to describe what he does.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are several who even work on direct human beneficial type of studies. One example is there was a giant anthropoid discovered in the Trench about four years ago that secretes a chemical compound that can be a possible treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s disease,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine scientist and blogger Dr. Andrew Thaler treated members of Rotary Club of Saipan to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14728,9503,12508,11349],"class_list":["post-242551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-thaler","tag-angelo-villagomez","tag-marianas-trench","tag-western-pacific-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}