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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures
A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
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What Exactly Is a Red Tide?
Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 2018
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Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root
I got a lot of funny looks at the airport when I opened the oversized cooler for...
October 2017
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Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places
Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....
February 2014
Personal Perspectives
Make Me Care About: Phragmites
This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...
March 2011
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The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...
March 2018
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Mangrove Restoration: Letting Mother Nature Do The Work
The ecological importance of coastal mangrove forests is common knowledge today....
December 2016
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health
We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015
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Smithsonian Research Stations
Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues are investigating important questions...
November 2009