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Personal Perspectives
Shipboard Life in the Antarctic
Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...
June 2016
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
Personal Perspectives
Ice-Loving Seals and the Loss of Sea Ice
The threat that climate change poses to polar bears has received a lot of...
September 2013
Personal Perspectives
Portraits of Planet Ocean – Behind The Photographs
As an assignment photographer, I sometimes feel as though I am living in a vacuum,...
September 2013
Personal Perspectives
Arctic Sea Ice: A New Low?
At a recent staff meeting a Smithsonian colleague mentioned that one of his...
September 2011
Personal Perspectives
Diving for Crabs in the Deep Sea
Last week, Smithsonian research zoologists Dr. Jerry Harasewych and Dr. Martha...
July 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
Personal Perspectives
The Ingredients for a Hurricane
I became interested in weather phenomena when I took physics in high school. At the...
October 2010
Personal Perspectives
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
Personal Perspectives
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
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health
We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions for Carole Baldwin
Dr. Carole Baldwin never expected to find seven new species of fish among the...
March 2011