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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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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come
Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...
October 2018
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates
There are thousands of marine invertebrate animals in the ocean, from small to...
June 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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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution
Large whales are notoriously hard to study. Except when rising to breathe, they...
March 2015
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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
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles
“It is strange to think of a sea turtle as an ecosystem,” says Amanda...
November 2011