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Personal Perspectives
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
Personal Perspectives
Bringing the Western Flyer, and History, Back to Life
As a first year graduate student in marine biology, I shared a large office with...
August 2017
Personal Perspectives
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
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
Personal Perspectives
The Design of a Beautiful Weapon
This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
Personal Perspectives
Field Notes from the East African Coast
We began this journey three months ago, a team of scientists and filmmakers...
April 2013
Personal Perspectives
The Search for an Elusive Ribbon Worm
With 1,400 named species of ribbon worms inhabiting every ecosystem on earth,...
March 2013
Personal Perspectives
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
Personal Perspectives
Make Me Care About: Phragmites
This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...
March 2011
Personal Perspectives
Seafood for Thought
Sunday, November 21 marks World Fisheries Day, an annual occasion observed in many...
November 2010
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions with Nancy Rabalais, Tracking Dead Zones In the Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico is known for one of the world's largest “dead zones"—areas...
March 2015