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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...
December 2018

Lesson Plan
Expedition to the Poles
Students will use NASA satellite data to...
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 15:56

Lesson Plan
Prince William's Oily Mess - A Tale of Recovery
How does an ecosystem recover from a major one-time insult such as an oil spill? As...
Sat, 06/05/2010 - 09:55

Lesson Plan
Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit
A kit you can create to help your students understand the impacts of the Gulf Of...
Sat, 06/05/2010 - 09:34

Personal Perspectives
Comics at Sea: An Antarctic Logbook
For five years, I've had a photograph of Palmer Station, Antarctica, tacked up over...
February 2018
Personal Perspectives
Shipboard Life in the Antarctic
Strapped in to a harness on the back deck of a 230-foot research vessel off the...
June 2016
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Bugs and Slugs: The Hidden Secret to Healthy Seagrasses
Slip into the water along a sheltered coast in nearly any part of the world and...
May 2015

Personal Perspectives
How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea
There can be catastrophic results when a large amount of oil is spilled into the...
November 2014

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...
June 2014

Personal Perspectives
Watching for Fish in the Puffin's Beak
In recent years, I have taken to watching flying fish along the Maine coast. Not...
November 2013

Personal Perspectives
Signs of a Recovering Harbor
For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...
July 2013

Personal Perspectives
4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird
Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an endangered, crow-sized...
May 2013