Colleen Marzec
Profile
Colleen Marzec is the Managing Editor/Producer of the Ocean Portal at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She joined the Museum in 2009 to manage the development and launch of the website, and has a background in journalism, communications, and marketing. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of Nature Conservancy Magazine and has worked for organizations such as The Washington Post Express, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the National Park Service. She holds a degree in English from Canisius College, studied television, radio, and film at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught courses in writing and journalism. Her background also includes a slew of natural history courses from the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase, Md., and a stint as a summer naturalist along the Potomac River for the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. During the big snowstorms that hit the Washington, D.C. area in February 2010, she had the good fortune to be “stuck” in Florida, and spent several extra days running along the beaches of Sarasota. In this photo, Colleen holds a Valentine for the Gulf of Mexico.
Collaborator Contributions
Starksia blennies, small coral reef fish, have been well-studied for more than 100 years. But Smithsonian scientists discovered that what were thought to be three species of the fish are actually 10 distinct...
Starksia blennies, small fish with elongated bodies, generally native to shallow to moderately deep rock and coral reefs in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, have been well-studied for more than...
Dr. Carole Baldwin never expected to find seven new species of fish among the Starskia blennies she was studying at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. "My research team was using barcoding to...
Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they can help with the oil spill cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico. If there is any good news coming out of this situation, it’s that thousands of...
Ocean Portal Community Manager and Blogger Maggy Benson
Starksia blennies, small coral reef fish with elongated bodies, have been well-studied for more than 100 years. But things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish. Using genetic analysis combined with...
Using genetic analysis combined with traditional study of morphology, Smithsonian scientist Dr. Carole Baldwin and her team discovered that what were thought to be three species of the fish are actually 10 distinct...
Marine mammals around the world face many challenges due to interactions with people, from overfishing and entanglement to vessel strikes and disturbance from human sounds. ...
What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from Georgia are among dozens from the U.S. and Mexico who are developing action plans on ocean and climate-related issues in their local...
This over 2,000-year-old shipwreck in Mazotas, Cyprus, was discovered in 2007. The ship was loaded with wine from Chios, one of the most expensive and sought-after Greek wines in antiquity. The University of Cyprus, in...
Using maps and graphics, Smithsonian geologist Dr. Liz Cottrell provides an overview of the major earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011—one of the largest ever recorded globally. She explains the...
The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics, and art, is on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural...