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A view of McMurdo Station with a frozen Ross Sea in the background.
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McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Since 1955, scientists...
A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean Conservancy's 2012 Coastal Cleanup.
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Picking Up Trash Along the Coast

A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean...
Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico in 2006.
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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico...
Hagfish Slime Thread
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Spin Hagfish Slime into Silk

Believe it or not, this unraveling thread is from hagfish slime. Hagfish are...
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...
A puffin sits on a rock.
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The Return of the Puffins

Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) used to be quite common along the Maine coast...
Can we use the sea as a source of fresh water?
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Can We Drink Our Salty Ocean?

An estimated 1.8 billion people will suffer from water scarcity by 2025. Looking...
Blue-spotted stingrays use the help of cleaner fish to stay clean and healthy.
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Blue-spotted Stingray

The blue-spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma) doesn’t like to be covered in sand...
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...
A thresher shark uses its unusual tail fin for swimming and hunting.
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The Thrashing Thresher Shark

A thresher shark’s long tail fin helps not only its swimming ability, but also...
Nutrient influxes can cause phytoplankton blooms in the Antarctic.
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Antarctic

Seasons in the Ross Sea are marked by ice freezing and melting, and these processes...
Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore.
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Floating Antarctic Comb Jelly

Bright colors seem to jump off of this comb jelly, or ctenophore. The rainbow...

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