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  • Peter Auster: The Gee Whiz Factor
    Jul 27 2011 - 12:30pm
    I still haven’t gotten beyond the ‘gee whiz’ factor of studying communities of animals in deep-sea coral habitats. Climbing over undersea mountains and along the steep cliffs of submarine canyons...

  • Ocean Trash Plaguing Our Sea
    Sep 20 2011 - 11:52am
    In the Pacific Ocean, four ocean currents merge to form the North Pacific gyre, also known as the North Pacific Subtropical High, which spans the western US to Japan, and Hawaii to California.

  • North Atlantic Right Whale
    Dec 6 2009 - 10:31pm
    Stretching up to 16.8 meters (55 feet) long and weighing up to 62 tons (70 tons), the North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s largest animals—and one of the most endangered whales....

  • NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows
    Mar 1 2010 - 6:32pm
    In 2009, Ruth Meadows, a science teacher from Opelika Middle School in Opelika, AL was part of a team of international scientists that may have found a new species! Led by Mike Vecchione of the...

  • Meet the Suspects
    Oct 23 2010 - 5:15pm
    CREDIT: Chris Kenaley The Mystery Develops Flash forward to 1956, when scientists described another new kind of fish. It was named the tapetail because of its long, streamer-like tail. It...

  • Martha Nizinski: Hooked on Deep-Sea Corals
    Jul 27 2011 - 11:49am
    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 my first...

  • Marine Zooplankton
    Aug 28 2012 - 3:33pm
    Holozooplankton (hereafter called "zooplankton") are small animals that drift in the ocean waves through their entire lives. As such, they are not very easy to count or even identify to species --...

  • Marine World Heritage Sites
    Dec 21 2010 - 6:38pm

  • Marine Snow: A Staple of the Deep
    Jan 17 2013 - 12:23pm
    Snow on land can make some people grumpy, but the magical-looking flakes and a beautiful layer on the trees can turn even disenchanted adults into gleeful children again. But what is the ocean...

  • Mapping the Pumice Journey
    Aug 27 2012 - 12:14pm
    But what path, precisely, did this pumice take to reach Belize from the Guatemalan Highlands? Maps of drainage networks that reach the Gulf of Honduras and currents in the western Caribbean Sea are...

  • Mangroves
    Jul 24 2012 - 1:02pm
    Mangroves are survivors. With their roots submerged in water, mangrove trees thrive in hot, muddy, salty conditions that would quickly kill most plants. How do they do it? Through a series of...

  • Long Before Coral, Mollusks Built the Ocean's Reefs
    Dec 4 2009 - 3:27pm
    About 100 million years ago, during the heyday of the dinosaurs, reefs were built by mollusks called rudist clams. Like modern clams, rudists were bivalves, with two shells (or valves) joined at a...