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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms
Lopping off one’s arm sounds like a harrowing experience, but for one deep-sea...
August 2019
slideshow
Collaborator Research
Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
slideshow
After the Oil Spill: Research Projects in the Gulf of Mexico with GoMRI
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed as a 10-year independent...
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 13:11
Personal Perspectives
Reflections on the Successful Search for the Giant Squid
I have been at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History since...
January 2013
Personal Perspectives
What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea
Imagine: You’re in a small submersible, and you gently settle on the soft muddy...
July 2012
Personal Perspectives
What Lives in the Gulf of Mexico? Exploring Marine Collections on Google Earth
When he was 10 years old, Stephen Cairns lived in Cuba where he kept a collection...
May 2011
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales
When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend
Five thousand feet (1,524 meters) beneath the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, an...
August 2017
From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi
For a month during the summer of 2016, Lela Schlenker spent several hours in the...
April 2017
Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts
You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...
January 2016
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
Personal Perspectives
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