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A zodiac boat and bamboo plates in the ocean
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Bamboo Plates Map Currents

These plates were tracked by a drone from above. ...
a ship from above
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Spying a Front

A ship moves through a front, possibly with oil....
These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.
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Cells Get Fat

These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed...
Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead...
Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, tows a surface float at Millennium Atoll in the South Pacific.
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Diver With Shark

Christian McDonald, the Scientific Diving Safety Officer at the Scripps Institution...
GEOMAR scientist Armin Form works at his lab during a long-term experiment on the effects of lower pH, higher temperatures and "food stress" on the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa.
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Deep-water Corals and Acidification

GEOMAR scientist Armin Form works at his lab during a long-term experiment on the...
Researchers can study ocean acidification in the lab by rearing organisms (here, Lophelia deep-sea corals) in seawater with variable pH and measuring if they grow, eat, breathe, reproduce, or develop differently.
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Studying Acidification in the Lab

Researchers can study ocean acidification in the lab by rearing organisms in...
By pumping enormous test tubes that are 60-feet deep and hold almost 15,000 gallons of water with carbon dioxide to make the water inside more acidic, researchers can study how zooplankton, phytoplankton and other small organisms will adapt in the wild.
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Studying Acidification in the Field

When studying ocean acidification in the lab, it's hard to study more than one or...
The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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Map of the Ross Sea

The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean...
A scientist collects oil-laden "sand patties" on a Louisiana beach two years after the oil spill.
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Scientist Collects Oil on the Gulf Coast

A scientist, Chris Reddy from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, collects...
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...
Dark brown oil floods a marsh after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Oily Marsh after the Oil Spill

Dark brown oil floods a marsh on the Mississippi Delta after the Deepwater Horizon...

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