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What is the Sea Ice Minimum? (And Why Do We Care)

Envision the Arctic and an icy, white world comes to mind. Unlike Antarctica, which...

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How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...

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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

There are thousands of marine invertebrate animals in the ocean, from small to...

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Mapping Out What’s Next for the Marshall Islands

For residents of the Marshall Islands, a system of over a thousand islands found on...

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Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching

Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many animals,...

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Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened

Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all...

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Success Stories in Ocean Conservation

It is easy to feel hopeless when reading the news coverage of ocean conservation....

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The Hyper Eyes of Hyperiids: How Some Shrimp-Like Creatures See Light in the Deep Sea

Hyperiid amphipods are small crustaceans related to sand fleas and distantly...

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Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

My internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History started off...

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What We’re Reading 10/6

Welcome to October, where there’s a lot going on in ocean news! Protecting...

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What We're Reading - 9/22

It’s hard to keep up with the latest news on the Internet. We all have...

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Shipboard Life in the Antarctic

Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...