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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...

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Microbes Help Corals Pick a Home and Settle Down

Bacteria are everywhere in the ocean. They live in the water, on virtually every...

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Diving into the Sandstorm

Diving can be a wild ride that evokes more than a little trepidation, especially in...

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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...

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Field Notes from the East African Coast

We began this journey three months ago, a team of scientists and filmmakers...

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How Coastal Seagrass Feeds the Deep

It is a well-known fact that for animals living in the deep sea, food can be...

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The Great Barrier Reef – Going, Going, Gone???

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (or the GBR as it is known to reef aficionados)...

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Smithsonian Scientists Describe a 'New' Fossil Whale

Monodontids, the group of whales that includes the belugas and narwhals swimming...

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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows

Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...

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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale

My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

Salmon are one of the most widely loved varieties of seafood in the world. A...