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On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

DNA is everywhere—it can be found in hair, saliva, blood, bones, feces or even...

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World Oceans Day 2012 - Live Webcast

On World Oceans Day - June 8th, 2012 - the Living Oceans Foundation hosted a...

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Science in a Time of Crisis: Assessing the Impacts

Part 6 of a 6-part series describing WHOI's efforts to understand the scope and...

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Welcome to the Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists journey to the isolated island of Moorea on a quest to catalog every...

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The Moorea Biocode Project

Scientists on the tiny island of Moorea, in the Pacific, are gathering one of every...

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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....

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Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened

Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all...

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Deep-Sea Coral Community

Dr. Amy Baco-Taylor observed corals like these on her first submarine dive to a...

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Lophelia Pertusa Coral Polyps

Deep-sea corals scientist Dr. J. Murray Roberts photographed these living polyps...

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Submersible with Coral Samples

The Johnson-Sea-Link submersible reaches the ocean’s surface with a specimen of...

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Collecting Gold Coral from the Deep Sea

The robotic arm of a Pisces submersible collects a gold coral colony (Gerardia sp.)...

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Research Diver in Moorea

Dr. Claude Payri, a researcher working on the Moorea Biocode Project, collects...