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Investigating Nutrient Pollution's Impact on Mangroves

At Carrie Bow Cay in Belize, Dr. Candy Feller explains her research on the effect...

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A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

The Ross Sea, a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean...

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Smiling Gulf Coast Man

A still from Stories From the Gulf: Living with the BP Oil Disaster, part of the...

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Testing DNA samples

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My internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History started off...

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Up Close and Personal with a Mangrove Root

I got a lot of funny looks at the airport when I opened the oversized cooler for...

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Let's Get Our Hands Dirty This Women's History Month

In the ocean world, there are many women to celebrate during Women’s History...

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Students Study Plankton

Students in Monterey Bay share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton...

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Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean

There are millions of tiny drifting plants in the sunlit ocean, called...

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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)....

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Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

Dr. Carole Baldwin never expected to find seven new species of fish among the...