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A diver collects water samples.
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
A dive safety officer keeps a close eye on divers from the surface.
Personal Perspectives

Diving in the Middle of Nowhere

Picture this: clear, warm water bathing spectacular coral reefs, clouds of fish,...
February 2014
A dredge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can be seen removing a sandbar off of Virginia Beach, VA.
Personal Perspectives

Diving into the Sandstorm

Diving can be a wild ride that evokes more than a little trepidation, especially in...
December 2013
Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015
This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

Now that the Census of Marine Life is over, we’re checking in with some of its...
May 2014
A red and white colored bristle worm swims in the water column.
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Five Questions with Brigitte Ebbe, Polychaete Pundit

Now that the Census of Marine Life is over, we’re checking in with some of the...
April 2013
Dr. Robert Ballard with an ROV
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Five Questions for Robert Ballard

As children, many people have dreamed of plunging beneath the ocean surface to...
August 2010
Dr. Brendan Roark discusses different methods of sampling deep-sea corals with undergraduate students at Texas A&M University.
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Coral Scientist Brendan Roark: On an Urgent Mission

Deep-sea coral beds are true biodiversity hotspots. It’s urgent that we study...
July 2011
Black coral, primnoid coral, and feather stars flourish deep on the pristine Davidson Seamount.
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Amy Baco-Taylor: Passionate about Deep-Sea Corals

Two events made me passionate about deep-sea corals. One was my first submarine...
July 2011
J. Murray Roberts studies and maps the cold-water corals known as Lophelia in the North Atlantic.
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Exploring the Blue Planet with J. Murray Roberts

Imagine you’re an alien seeing Planet Earth for the first time. What do you see...
July 2011
Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

We drove down a long dirt road on the northern side of Curaçao looking for a...
July 2011
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.
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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

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