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

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Curator and Research Scientist Lynne Parenti with student Shao-i Wang on a moped with fish collection gear
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Lynne Parenti NMNH Fishes Curator

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A jellyfish floating in the water.
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Jellyfish Floating

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The next time you use any of the following words, think of William Dampier. They are just a few of the more than 1,000 words Dampier contributed to the English language: Avocado, Barbeque, Breadfruit, Cashew, Chopsticks, Posse, Tortilla.
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Dampier in the dictionary

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Each year, thousands of local teachers join us for Smithsonian Teachers’ Night.
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Teacher's Night Logo

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A bird sits atop an outcrop of rocks surrounded by turbulent water.
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Offshore Rock Island

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A Florida manatee swims through a channel into a freshwater spring late in the day.
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Florida Manatee

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A Hawaiian Lure
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Hawaiian Lure

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an ammonite fossil with a carved snake head
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Snakestones

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A drawing of Phoenix from the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog documents her callosity pattern and other identifying marks.
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Who’s That Whale?

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This is North Atlantic right whale #3333 who was spotted with fishing gear trailing from his mouth during an aerial survey off the coast of Georgia on January 29, 2008.
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Whale Entanglement

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A female napoleon wrasse swims by a reef
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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

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