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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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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
A bloom of algae from up above
Article

What Exactly Is a Red Tide?

Drifting throughout the ocean, invisible to the naked eye, are innumerable...
August 2018
Kopelman Watercolor Detail
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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
A newly established black mangrove sits in a field of salt marsh near the northern limit of mangroves in Florida. Mangroves have been expanding near their northern limit in Florida and the expansion is linked to a reduction in the frequency of ex
Article

Finding Mangroves In Unexpected Places

Over the past several decades, Florida’s coastal wetlands have been changing....
February 2014
A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
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Make Me Care About: Phragmites

This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...
March 2011
Cartoon t-shirts with got plankton.
Article

The Cloud Factories that Live in the Sea

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate. A jumble of syllables akin to a complicated...
March 2018
Mangroves on the edge of the water.
Article

Mangrove Restoration: Letting Mother Nature Do The Work

The ecological importance of coastal mangrove forests is common knowledge today....
December 2016
Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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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
These Smithsonian field stations enable scientists worldwide to conduct long-term studies on mangrove ecosystems.
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Smithsonian Research Stations

Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues are investigating important questions...
November 2009
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