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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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MarineGEO: A Global Research Network

The Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by the Smithsonian’s...

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Lionfish on the Loose

The majestic and highly predatory red lionfish (Pterois volitans), native to the...

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Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves

At Carrie Bow Cay in Belize, Dr. Candy Feller explains her research on the effect...

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Cells Get Fat

These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed...

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s...

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Veracruz Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

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Texas State Aquarium Delegation

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...

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...

Dancing for the Oceans

If you were choreographing a dance about the ocean, how would you do it? Would you...

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Light Painting Tutorial

What does a bioluminescent creature that lives more than two miles below the...

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Make Me Care About: Phragmites

This week at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal we embark on an experiment we're calling...