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Screenshot from video "Connecting Coral Reefs" showing illustrations of an underwater coral community.
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Connecting Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are some of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet that are home...
Wed, 11/15/2017 - 09:37
a tidal marsh under an overcast sky
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Oil Spill Pioneers

Part 1 of a 6-part series describing WHOI's efforts to understand the scope and...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 13:54
two people in the water with mountains in the background
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Welcome to the Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists journey to the isolated island of Moorea on a quest to catalog every...
Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:28
A view of the island of Moorea.
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The Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists on the tiny island of Moorea, in the Pacific, are gathering one of every...
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 16:48
On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific....
April 2018
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,...
April 2018
A screen shot from video "From Despair to Repair" showing a black and white image of a coral reef in 1975.
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From Despair to Repair

Sit down with two veteran marine scientists, Dr. Nancy Knowlton and Dr. Jeremy...
Tue, 07/01/2014 - 12:59
A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
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Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Male fiddler crabs each have a single super-sized claw that they use as a weapon to...
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:18
A screenshot from the video of Nancy Knowlton on PBS NewsHour.
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Where did Half of the Great Barrier Reef's Coral Go?

In the past 30 years, the Great Barrier Reef -- Australia's iconic natural wonder...
Wed, 10/03/2012 - 13:57
Screenshot from "Deep Reef Observation Project Video" showing two researchers looking out a window of a submersible.
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Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) Video

Dr. Carole Baldwin, a research zoologist and fish expert with the Smithsonian's...
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 13:19
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