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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime
Slice through the trunk of a tree and you reveal a pattern of rings that grow out...
December 2019
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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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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion
From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...
February 2019
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...
December 2018
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Fish Heart Out of Water
Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...
June 2018
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Do You Have The Answer? Sharing Big Data in the Gulf of Mexico
Sharing is something that is encouraged from the beginning of our lives, whether it...
March 2016
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#GulfSpillFlashback: Giving the Gulf Oil Spill the Consideration It Deserves
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico,...
April 2015
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How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea
There can be catastrophic results when a large amount of oil is spilled into the...
November 2014
Personal Perspectives
Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill
You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so...
June 2014
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
Personal Perspectives
Do Sharks Smell in Stereo?
Animals, on land and in the ocean, live in a 3-D world, and they depend on their...
November 2010
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?
Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they...
June 2010