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Eugenie Clark collecting specimens on a dive.

Eugenie Clark - The Shark Lady

What does it take to become a shark scientist? Learn about one woman's path to studying the fearsome predators.

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Corals to Communication: Nancy Knowlton’s Success Focusing on the Imminent

Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory

Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

Dr. Robert Ballard with an ROV

Five Questions for Robert Ballard

A large red research vessel among icy waters and snowy mountains

Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.

Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

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Ruth Meadows examines specimens as part of her Teacher at Sea experience. NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows sorts specimens aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem (MAR-ECO) project.

NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows

Musician Sam Lardner and friends created the 14-song CD Oceans Are Talking to inspire kids and adults to help save the ocean and the creatures living in it.

Five Questions for Musician Sam Lardner

Dr. Robert Ballard with an ROV

Five Questions for Robert Ballard

Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory

Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

Black coral, primnoid coral, and feather stars flourish deep on the pristine Davidson Seamount.

Amy Baco-Taylor: Passionate about Deep-Sea Corals

Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.

Coral Scientist Brendan Roark: On an Urgent Mission

Scientist Martha Nizinski examines a sample of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, collected 600-m (1,969-ft) deep off the coast of the southeastern United States.

Martha Nizinski: Hooked on Deep-Sea Corals

Auster gets ready to study fish predators at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia.

Peter Auster: The Gee Whiz Factor

Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.

Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.

Five Questions with Brigitte Ebbe, Polychaete Pundit

This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.

Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989 when an oil tanker grounded on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil, which reached 1,300 miles of coastline. The spill's remote location, accessib

Five Questions for Richard Carson, Natural Resource Economist

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