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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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Unearthing History: Mary Anning's Hunt for Prehistoric Ocean Giants
You may not have realized it, but you’ve been acquainted with Mary Anning since...
March 2016
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit
One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014
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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
Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner
After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
Personal Perspectives
Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
Personal Perspectives
Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
Personal Perspectives
Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!
Jorge and I packed up the night we arrived in Panama with Aaron O'Dea and his team...
June 2011
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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Mangrove Restoration: Letting Mother Nature Do The Work
The ecological importance of coastal mangrove forests is common knowledge today....
December 2016
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Smithsonian Research Stations
Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues are investigating important questions...
November 2009