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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
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History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan
Traveling aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a 173-year-old whaling ship on its 38th...
July 2014
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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
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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...
September 2013
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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
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Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner
After a few long days of hard work on the island, we were finally able to excavate...
May 2012
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
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Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale
Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...
March 2012
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows
Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...
January 2012
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The Perfect Underwater Photo
There is of course, no such thing as the perfect photograph, as there is no perfect...
December 2011
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New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America
The evolution of whales represents one of the great stories in macroevolution. It's...
September 2011