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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.
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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
"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule...
August 2014
The Amazon River carries all the rainwater that lands in the Amazon rainforest, covering some 2.1 million square miles, into the ocean. And with it, it carries vital nutrients like phosphorus, nitrogen and silicon.
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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...
July 2014
Pink crustose algae covers the surface of a rock.
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Microbes Help Corals Pick a Home and Settle Down

Bacteria are everywhere in the ocean. They live in the water, on virtually every...
July 2014
This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places...
July 2014
A diver collects water samples.
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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
Many species of pink coralline algae, which cements coral reefs together, cover a reef surface in the Southern Line Islands.
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Coralline Algae: The Unsung Architects of Coral Reefs

Stare at a tide pool and you will often see a crust of pink coating the bottom. No,...
January 2014
A sunset over Boston Harbor.
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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...
July 2013
Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
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Helpful Herbivores

When snorkeling in the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) in West...
June 2013
Traditional fishing techniques now involve monofilament nets, with snorkelers diving down to ensure the bigger fish don't get away.
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Field Notes from the East African Coast

We began this journey three months ago, a team of scientists and filmmakers...
April 2013
This orange boring sponge (Cliona varians) overgrows several coral species at Panama's Smithsonian Tropical Studies Institute.
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Ocean Acidification Excites Boring Sponges

Boring sponges get a bad rap. Their own name betrays them, announcing to the world...
March 2013

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