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What do you get when the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team up to create an exhibit about the ocean? Our breathtaking Sant Ocean Hall!

 

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Name this new species! - Vote through June 26th

Banded Box Jelly, Divi Divi, Bonaire, July 2008.
 
Banded Box Jelly, Divi Divi, Bonaire, July 2008.
Image courtesy of: Marijke Wilhelmus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marine biologist and TED prize winner Sylvia Earle gave an inspiring talk about the state of the ocean. Watch it here!

 

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World

Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World is the companion volume to the Sant Ocean Hall.  Gifted science writer Deborah Cramer reveals the myriad ways the sea is essential to all of us, wherever we live.

 

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Glowing Sucker Octopus, Photo Courtesy of David Shale

 

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