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Personal Perspectives
Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook
For five years, I've had a photograph of Palmer Station, Antarctica, tacked up over...
February 2018
Personal Perspectives
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
Personal Perspectives
Bringing the Western Flyer, and History, Back to Life
As a first year graduate student in marine biology, I shared a large office with...
August 2017
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
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
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
Ocean Acidification Excites Boring Sponges
Boring sponges get a bad rap. Their own name betrays them, announcing to the world...
March 2013
Personal Perspectives
Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean
Scientists don’t often get the opportunity to travel through time. But nestled...
August 2012
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
Make Me Care About: Phragmites
This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...
March 2011
Personal Perspectives
A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean
Welcome to Citizens of the Sea, a new blog series where ocean life comes to life....
October 2010