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Hannah Waters
One of Hannah Waters's earliest memories is digging up sand crabs on a Delaware beach, and she hasn't stopped digging the ocean. Formerly a writer, editor and producer for the Ocean Portal at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she is currently an associate web editor at Audubon.org. She studied Biology and Latin Minnesota’s Carleton College, sneaking off to the coasts in the summertime to study seabird colonies, conserve endangered piping plovers, and help lobstermen with their traps. She loves cephalopods, imagining plankton as larger-than-life monsters, and weird adaptations.
![Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Chrysaora_melanaster.jpg.webp?itok=Elat8aoy)
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World Oceans Day 2012
![Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FLoating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, conducts sea trials off San Diego in May 2009.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/flip-scripps-vertical_0.jpg.webp?itok=A13OcQsz)
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FLIP: The FLoating Instrument Platform
![Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Tectitethya_crypta.jpeg.webp?itok=BQ4JLAra)
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Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter
![A close-up image of a fossil shark jaw with teeth.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/hubbellshark2.jpg.webp?itok=-rvaF3Uq)
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Shark Teeth Tell Great White Shark Evolution Story
![A pair of sea butterflies float in the Arctic ocean.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/sea-butterflies.jpg.webp?itok=UlB7FPqK)
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Searching for the Ocean Acidification Signal
![A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Hauke_ANT21-4_T_Carpenteri_CRW_1293_ps.jpg.webp?itok=XQyRIiVE)
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Five Questions with Brigitte Ebbe, Polychaete Pundit
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Zombie Worms Crave Bone
![Sea Monster A sea monster attacks a wooden ship](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Sea-Monster-39_07.jpg.webp?itok=Ioo3P9oC)
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The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps
![A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock. A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/starfish-wasting1.jpg.webp?itok=T9LwO77b)
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Sickly Starfish: A Q&A with Dr. Chris Mah
![This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/deep_sea_copepod.jpeg.webp?itok=feoOpUA0)
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz
![Oil Slick in the Gulf A wildlife biologist surveys oiled algae](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/oilsargassum.jpg.webp?itok=ZiX0MDzQ)
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Breaking Down the Myths and Misconceptions About the Gulf Oil Spill
![Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/CuracaoTrashStill1.jpg.webp?itok=xDutCKDF)
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Fighting Plastic From Every Angle
![A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/shark-in-net.jpg.webp?itok=eVTUhca2)
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Good-Bye Gillnet, Hello Shark Recovery!
![With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/sparrow-perched-grass.jpg.webp?itok=HoaTRFQf)
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Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land
![A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Johnson-Sea-Link-Submersible_full.jpg.webp?itok=mJMC1xU5)
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How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill
![The Greenland glacier Jakobshavn Isbrae is massive, at around 40 miles long and more than a mile thick.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Jakobshavn_-_Nik_Gaffney_1.jpg.webp?itok=ILy5YH-U)
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Up Close and Personal With the Fastest Glacier in the World
![Oil Slick in the Gulf A wildlife biologist surveys oiled algae](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/oilsargassum.jpg.webp?itok=ZiX0MDzQ)
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Five Things The Gulf Oil Spill Has Taught Us About the Ocean
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How the Puffin Returned to Eastern Egg Rock
![Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/turtle-grass-bed.jpeg.webp?itok=CX9pnRMu)
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Bringing Back Tampa Bay’s Seagrass
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Mangrove Restoration: Letting Mother Nature Do The Work
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Restauración de manglares: Dejar que la madre naturaleza haga su trabajo
![North Atlantic right whales and ocean-going vessels often cross paths.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/2_02_R02_G01_2.jpg.webp?itok=XtNsb43j)
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Slow Down for Right Whales
![King scallop in Lamlash Bay reserve with it's mouth open King scallop in Lamlash Bay reserve](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/King_scallop_in_the_reserve_%28Howard_Wood%29_0.jpg.webp?itok=txMi-Nml)
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A lesson learned twice: The Story of Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas
![Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/sargassum-oil-deepwater-horizon.jpg.webp?itok=XMPYWzi5)
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
![Large numbers of grey reef sharks were observed at Jarvis Island, an uninhabited Pacific island, during the 2010 Pacific RAMP expedition of the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/reef-sharks-noaa.jpg.webp?itok=7Ga2RRMD)
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Reef Sharks Repelled by People
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Dancing for the Ocean
![A sea monster attacks a ship in an illustration for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/20000_squid_holding_sailor.jpg.webp?itok=yc3HY_2I)
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Ray Bradbury and the Sea
![Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FLoating Instrument Platform, or FLIP, conducts sea trials off San Diego in May 2009.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/flip-scripps-vertical_0.jpg.webp?itok=A13OcQsz)
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Happy 50th Birthday, FLIP – a Mobile Research Island
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The Great Hermit Crab Migration
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Earth Day, Spawned from the Sea
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit
![The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/Great-Blue-Hole-Coast-Belize_0.jpg.webp?itok=dthzhs1X)
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling
![Oil on the water’s surface in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/GulfOilSlick750.jpg.webp?itok=bBk6yS7N)
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#GulfSpillFlashback: Giving the Gulf Oil Spill the Consideration It Deserves
![Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_small/public/2023-11/two-sea-stars.jpg.webp?itok=ZLrigymC)
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