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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 diver clears the bottom of a cargo ship of specimens.
Personal Perspectives

Unearthing Information About Invasives From the Bottom of a Cargo Ship

I am once again leaving my familiar world behind and descending into the abyss...
February 2015
Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
Personal Perspectives

How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

There can be catastrophic results when a large amount of oil is spilled into the...
November 2014
A diver collects water samples.
Personal Perspectives

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Seagrasses are flowering plants that can form dense underwater meadows and are an important shallow water habitat.
Personal Perspectives

How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep

It is a well-known fact that for animals living in the deep sea, food can be...
February 2013
A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
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Watching for Fish in the Puffin's Beak

In recent years, I have taken to watching flying fish along the Maine coast. Not...
November 2013
Brian Skerry sits on a 20 foot high underwater tripod to photograph the Aquarius Habitat off Florida.
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Portraits of Planet Ocean – Behind The Photographs

As an assignment photographer, I sometimes feel as though I am living in a vacuum,...
September 2013
Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

We drove down a long dirt road on the northern side of Curaçao looking for a...
July 2011
A landscape photo of a shoreline with tall grass-like plants lining the water's edge.
Personal Perspectives

Make Me Care About: Phragmites

This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...
March 2011
Neighborhood Seafood Market in Rome, Italy
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Seafood for Thought

Sunday, November 21 marks World Fisheries Day, an annual occasion observed in many...
November 2010
Nancy Rabalais smiling at the camera in a headshot.
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Five Questions with Nancy Rabalais, Tracking Dead Zones In the Gulf

The Gulf of Mexico is known for one of the world's largest “dead zones"—areas...
March 2015
An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.
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Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

There are millions of tiny drifting plants in the sunlit ocean, called...
March 2015
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