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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...

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Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

When a whale dies, the story has just begun. The massive carcass sinks to the...

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Science in a Time of Crisis: Tracking the Currents

Part 5 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...

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Science in a Time of Crisis: Searching for the Plume

Part 4 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...

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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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A Microbial Reef

This photograph from a scanning electron micrograph shows the plastisphere up...

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Deep-Sea Corals Worldwide

This map shows where some of the most significant species of deep-sea corals are...

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Google map of invertebrates in oil spill region

The National Museum of Natural History's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has...

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Head to Foot

The lesson begins with a broader introduction on new species discovered around...

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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor

Until very recently oceanography was a field dominated by men. A seafaring career,...

Personal Perspectives

Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so...

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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

Any floating object in the ocean tends to attract life; fishermen know this and...