Personal Perspectives

What We’re Reading 11/14

Last week we read a lot about the U.S. Presidential election and its outcomes....

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Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...

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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...

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Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice

The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...

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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,...

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Arctic Sea Ice: A New Low?

At a recent staff meeting a Smithsonian colleague mentioned that one of his...