FEATURES
Article
Nine years ago I was invited by a colleague to join a research team investigating deep-sea coral habitats. I was asked to examine the invertebrates associated with these ecosystems. After...
Video MORE STORIES
John Hildebrand discusses his research at the Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab on the...
Article MORE STORIES
Two events made me passionate about deep-sea corals. One was my first submarine...
Blog entry MORE STORIES
How do you make science sing? Just ask a couple of female scientists to sing...
LATEST POSTS
Apr 26, 2013 - 9:47AM
At Carrie Bow Cay in Belize , Dr. Candy Feller explains her research on the effect of excess nutrients on mangrove swamps. Feller runs the Animal-Plant Interaction Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. See a photo...
LEARN MORE
Deep-sea coral beds are true biodiversity hotspots. It’s urgent that we study these extreme environments because we know so...
MORE CAREERS
Jul 5 2011 - 2:15pm
You never know where following your passions can take you. I came to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) two years ago as a research intern after graduating with a Bachelor’s...
Jul 27 2011 - 11:07am
Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students Sam Kuykendall, left, and Beth Stockert, center, in the Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility at...
Jan 26 2010 - 10:45am
Smithsonian Zoologist Dr. Clyde Roper (rear) and museum specialist Mike Sweeney examine the mantle of a dead giant squid. Everything we know about giant squid comes from studying specimens found...
Jun 17 2011 - 10:54am
Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, has packed his bags for an expedition to Panama to excavate a fossil...
Pages
