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Karen Romano Young's 19th AntarcticLog comic

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

A large red research vessel among icy waters and snowy mountains

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

Rough periwinkles sit on a bed of barnacles.

Personal Perspectives

Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

When I set out to write a book about mollusks (called Spirals in Time), I wasn't...

July 2015

Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.

Personal Perspectives

How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

There can be catastrophic results when a large amount of oil is spilled into the...

November 2014

"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.

Personal Perspectives

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule...

August 2014

Personal Perspectives

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

Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.

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Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so...

June 2014

This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!

Personal Perspectives

The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...

September 2013

A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.

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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) are the most abundant baleen whale in the...

February 2013

These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.

Personal Perspectives

One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...

December 2012

Where the pH is the lowest, corals can no longer grow - sand, rubble and seagrasses replace the reef.

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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

Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.

Personal Perspectives

What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

Imagine: You’re in a small submersible, and you gently settle on the soft muddy...

July 2012

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Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

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Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook

Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

Spirals in Time: A Walk at the Seashore

How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species

Sneak Peek: Future of Coral Reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

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