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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
The Komodo National Park site in Indonesia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1991. The site hosts "Komodo dragons" (Varanus komodoensis), a unique species that exists nowhere else in the world and is of great interest to scientists studying evolu
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Tunicates—Not So Spineless Invertebrates

There are thousands of marine invertebrate animals in the ocean, from small to...
June 2018
A submersible explores the deep reefs off of Curacao in the Caribbean.
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A New Ocean Zone Described with the Help of a Submersible

Beneath vibrant coral reefs, but above the lightless depths of the sea, lies the...
June 2018
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
Screenshot from "Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay" of students wearing life jackets on a boat.
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Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay

Students are working with the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., to develop an...
Mon, 02/14/2011 - 15:14
two scientists hammering a sediment core
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Oil and Water Don't Mix, Even After 40 Years

More than 40 years after the 1969 oil spill in Massachusetts’ Wild Harbor salt...
Mon, 05/03/2010 - 18:02
“This shark was cruising low along the reef known as Alcyone. Her left eye was glancing up toward other hammerheads when I took this shot from below.” -- Nature's Best photographer, Alan Studley.

Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Nikon D300; Tokin
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Ocean Views from Nature's Best Photos

The winners of the 2010 Nature's Best Photography Ocean Views Contest are a...
Thu, 12/23/2010 - 12:40
An underwater photo of a school of jacks and a scuba diver
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Ocean Views Award Winners, 2011

Thanks to a passionate group of fearless ocean photographers, you can stare-down a...
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 15:19
Seahorses are hitchhikers. They can travel long distances across the ocean—farther than they can swim—by attaching themselves to floating seaweed and debris.
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Hitchhiking Seahorses

Seahorses are hitchhikers. They can travel long distances across the...
An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Bonny Schumaker, cofounder of the nonprofit On Wings of Care, flies over the Gulf...
A photo of a tern's silhouette against an orange sky.
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Common Tern Silhouette, Nickerson Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

“A tern colony resides here for the better part of the summer, raising their...
Head shot of Dr. Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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Lecture: "Troubled Waters in the Gulf of Mexico"

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill brought the world's attention to the Gulf of...

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