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Map of sites participating in Ocean Sampling Day 2014.
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Ocean Sampling Day Sites

Ocean Sampling Day 2014 will be the largest ocean sampling effort ever orchestrated...
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...
There are many techniques used to sample the benthic zone.
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Benthic Diving Techniques

Diving to survey, sample, and manage marine life takes a great deal of skill and...
Pelicans Roost at oil spill "ground zero" two years later.
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Pelicans Roost at Oil Spill "Ground Zero"

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, brown pelicans roost on a mangrove...
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

Oceanographer and executive director of Oceana Europe, Xavier Pastor, led the...
Off the coast of North Carolina, Nizinski and Johnson Sea Link pilot Phil Santos descend through the water column towards the target site.
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Submersible and Deep-Sea Corals

Off the coast of North Carolina, Dr. Martha Nizinski and Johnson Sea Link pilot...
The Smithsonian's Dr. Carole Baldwin uses a wall diagram that shows genetic lineages among Starksia blennies (a type of reef fish) to explain how the seven new species differ from previously known species.
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Wall Chart of New Fish Species

Starksia blennies, small coral reef fish, have been well-studied for more than 100...
Ice divers study the abundance of marine life.
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Counting Creatures

Ice divers use a quadrat to study the density of creatures living on the underside...
Ice divers descend through a hole in the ice.
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Descending Through the Ice

Ice divers Katrin Iken (left) and Elizabeth Siddon are about to descend through a...
Divers deep into the cold waters beneath the ice.
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Diving Beneath the Ice

The world beneath the Arctic ice is magical, but cold. Divers have to tolerate...
Dr. Candy Feller is framed by the roots of a mangrove tree on Panama’s Pacific coast.
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Dr. Candy Feller with Mangrove Roots

Dr. Candy Feller is framed by the roots of a mangrove tree on Panama’s Pacific...
Anne Chamberlain and Marc Frischer stride through a mangrove pond at Twin Cays, Belize.
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Knee Deep in Mangrove Mud

Smithsonian research assistant Anne Chamberlain and Marc Frischer from Skidaway...

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