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A photo of oceanographer Xavier Pastor aboard an Oceana research vessel surrounded by ice in the Baltic Sea
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Oceanographer Xavier Pastor

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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

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The Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park site in the Philippines was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The site's topography varies from flat plains to rolling hinterlands and hills to mountain peaks, encompassing a complete mountai
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Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Philippines

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A screenshot of some of Smithsonian's marine story windows in Google Earth
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Smithsonian Marine Collections on Google Earth

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The National Museum of Natural History's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has developed an online map that provides information about invertebrates in the National Collection from areas impacted by the oil spill.
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Google map of invertebrates in oil spill region

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The Cocos Island National Park site in Costa Rica was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. Cocos Island's position as the first point of contact with the northern equatorial counter-current and the myriad interactions between the island and the su
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Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica

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The Indonesian Archipelago is the heart of the Coral Triangle, a biodiversity hotspot for marine and terrestrial life. This diversity forms an important part of Indonesia's natural, cultural, and economic heritage, its coral reefs alone support nearly 6 mi
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Map of Bali, Indonesia

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The Sian Ka'an site in Mexico was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1987. The site's name means "Origin of the Sky" in Mayan and contains tropical forests, mangroves, and marshes, as well as a large marine area intersected by the Caribbean Barrier Re
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Sian Ka'an, Mexico

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The Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts, US cover
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Five Questions for Callum Roberts, Author and Professor

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A light painted image of a hand-painted ceramic fish with light emitting from its mouth
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Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

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A spiraled diatom with spines.
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The Ocean Under the Microscope: Images from Nikon Small World

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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

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