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How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were being judged by a bunch of middle-schoolers in classrooms around the world… and you only had a month to do it?...
Bacteria are everywhere in the ocean. They live in the water, on virtually every living and non-living surface, and even inside other organisms. There are 1 million bacterial cells in every...
Traveling aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a 173-year-old whaling ship on its 38th Voyage, I’m struck by its paradox: this vessel which spent years chasing and killing whales is now helping us to...
Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places Caribbean reefs once were. In our youth we studied them for all sorts of reasons but scarcely thought about...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8Focus on Farmer Fish
Grades: 6-8Today's Catch
What's Moving The Ocean?
When you look underwater, what is making the seagrass wave in the water? The answer is ocean currents. Ocean currents are continuous movements of water in the ocean that follow set...
Beyond the Obituaries
Success Stories in Ocean Conservation
Last September, the Citizens of the Sea blog series brought you a story of doom and gloom from the reefs of Bocas del Toro, Panama. That is the time of year we typically study -- and celebrate...
Ocean Newsroom
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Alaska fisheries and communities at risk from ocean acidification (NOAA)
Jul 30 2014 - 9:12am -
Huge, house-sized waves measured for first time in Arctic Ocean (Science Daily)
Jul 30 2014 - 9:08am -
Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coral is Deeper and Broader than Predicted
Jul 30 2014 - 8:01am -
Researcher Part of Team Studying Ways to Better Predict Intensity of Hurricanes
Jul 28 2014 - 9:46am -
Grad Student Worthen Improves Oil Production and Cleanup Using Nanoparticles
Jul 28 2014 - 9:31am -
Legos washing up in England after 17 years at sea (NPR)
Jul 28 2014 - 7:22am -
Study Evaluates Ocean Current Prediction Models
Jul 25 2014 - 9:44am
