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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
A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.
Personal Perspectives

Keeping Exploration Alive With Manned Submersibles

The Ocean Portal was lucky enough to join the Deep Reef Observation Project team in...
October 2015
Two new species of sea stars were discovered in the deep sea: Paulasterias tyleri (on the left) in a North Pacific hydrothermal vent community, and Paulasterias mcclaini (on the right) in the deep sea off the coast of Antarctica.
Personal Perspectives

The Discovery of Two Extreme Sea Stars

Recently, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History researcher Chris Mah and...
May 2015
One of several rowboats that were sunk in front of Lake Hotel at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in the early 20th century.
Personal Perspectives

Underwater Parks in 3-D

As I readied myself and my camera for a dive in Yellowstone Lake, the largest body...
January 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
An Atlantic wolffish hiding on Cashes Ledge off the New England coast.
Personal Perspectives

Exploring a Unique Biodiversity Hotspot In the Gulf of Maine

Cashes Ledge is a wild, special place in the heart of the Gulf of Maine. This...
November 2014
This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.
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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

Reef biologists over a certain age are haunted by memories of what glorious places...
July 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
A humpback whale breaching.
Personal Perspectives

Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

Whales swimming in the ocean are never really alone. Even if one swims by itself...
March 2014
Brian Skerry sits on a 20 foot high underwater tripod to photograph the Aquarius Habitat off Florida.
Personal Perspectives

Portraits of Planet Ocean – Behind The Photographs

As an assignment photographer, I sometimes feel as though I am living in a vacuum,...
September 2013
Convict surgeonfish are the roaming sheep of the reef but, instead of noshing on grass, they feed on algae.
Personal Perspectives

Helpful Herbivores

When snorkeling in the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) in West...
June 2013
A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an endangered, crow-sized...
May 2013

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