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...

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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...

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Ribbon Worm Redux

Even on an early winter morning, it was sunny and warm in southern Florida. This...

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Arctic Sea Ice: A New Low?

At a recent staff meeting a Smithsonian colleague mentioned that one of his...

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Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

Dr. Carole Baldwin never expected to find seven new species of fish among the...