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A screenshot from the video showing equipment on a research vessel.
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Wavechasers and the Samoan Passage

Watch as a team of wave chasers heads to Somoa where they search for an undersea...
Wed, 12/02/2015 - 09:46
Screenshot from video of an aerial view of the ocean drilling vessel Chikyu.
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The Ocean Drilling Vessel Chikyu

The Chikyu allows scientists to gather and study data about seafloor sediments as...
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 21:57
A screenshot from the video "Making Aquaculture Sustainable" with tuna in an offshore fish farm in a net.
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Making Aquaculture Sustainable

Watch as Dr. Dallas Alston and a team of researchers study the effects of...
Fri, 09/25/2015 - 09:22
This male dancing fiddler crab (Uca terpsichores) has built a sand “hood” at the entrance to his burrow, which he hopes will attract females to his humble abode—as if that big beautiful claw of his weren't enough!
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The Design of a Beautiful Weapon

This summer, many of you have likely enjoyed feasting on crabs, be they blue,...
September 2013
A screenshot from the video showing a fiddler crab with a large claw.
video

Claws Out: Fiddler Crabs Do Battle

Male fiddler crabs each have a single super-sized claw that they use as a weapon to...
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:18
A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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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
A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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A Tale of Sex and Stress in the Ocean

Welcome to Citizens of the Sea, a new blog series where ocean life comes to life....
October 2010
Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015

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