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  • Carrie McDougall Senior Program Manager, NOAA’s Office of Education

    Carrie McDougall Senior Program Manager, NOAA’s Office of Education
    Sep 6 2011 - 1:17pm
  • A silhouette of a small boat carrying 8 passengers on tranquil water, with a pink horizon.

    Carteret Islands Row
    Mar 22 2011 - 10:10am
    A still from Sun Come Up, part of the 19th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
  • Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe.

    Carving the Canoe
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am
    Douglas Chilton uses traditional carving tools to shape the Raven Spirit canoe. Chilton—a master carver and member of the Tlingit Nation—transformed the log into a 26-foot-long, traditional...
  • Fish spears and traps placed in rivers are traditional ways of catching salmon.

    Catching Salmon
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am
    Fish spears and fish weirs—fish traps placed in rivers—are traditional ways of catching salmon on rivers. More about raven spirit can be found in our Raven Spirit featured story.
  • Japanese scientists videotaped this female giant squid, alive, at the water's surface

    Caught on Video: Giant Squid
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:46am
    In 2006, this female giant squid attacked bait suspended beneath a Japanese research vessel off the coast of Japan in the Ogasawara Islands.

  • Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am
    This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis. Read more...
  • A photo of a cave basslet.

    Cave Basslet
    Jul 5 2011 - 10:08am
    Smithsonian researchers collected a cave basslet (Liopropoma mowbrayi) from the deep reefs of Curaçao, in the southern Caribbean. They used a state-of-the-art submersible to obtain the...
  • Members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.

    Celebrating in Washington
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am
    Members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the September 2008 opening of the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall. More about raven spirit can be found in our Raven Spirit featured story.
  • Members of the Squamish Nation paddle to a 1997 festival celebrating Native canoe arts.

    Celebrating Traditional Canoes
    Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am
    Members of the Squamish Nation paddle their canoe to a 1997 festival celebrating traditional Native canoe arts. Native peoples of the Northwest Coast believe each canoe has its own spirit. Designs on...
  • Celebratory Harvest in Papua New Guinea

    Celebratory Harvest in Papua New Guinea
    Nov 18 2010 - 6:13pm
    A fisherman in Papua New Guinea shows his catch for a ceremonial feast. Communities there are successfully managing their local reefs by observing temporary fishing closures that end in time to...
  • Map of volcanoes of Central America and within the Caribbean Sea.

    Central American and Caribbean Sea Volcanoes
    Aug 27 2012 - 11:04am
    This map shows volcanoes of Central America and within the Caribbean Sea. The red triangles represent volcanoes known to have erupted in recent time (within the last 10,000 years) and white stars are...
  • two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological ex

    Ceramic Pottery Recovered from Early Whaling Community
    Sep 9 2011 - 4:26pm
    Research at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada has revealed important clues about the connections between the Inuit peoples of Northern Canada and the Basque whalers of Spain and France.