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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Learning Ocean Science Through Ocean Exploration

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A photo of Oceana's ice class research vessel, the Hanse Explorer, on the Baltic Sea.
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Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

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Jeff Chanton's students collect plankton in large nets called plankton tows during the May 2012 R/V Weatherbird II Cruise in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Collecting Plankton

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Tiny jellies in a petri dish.
Article

Fishing for Plastic: Science in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Students working on a marine genetics project at the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center in 2011.
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Students Doing Marine Genetics

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A diver collects water samples.
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Scientists Collect Samples for Ocean Sampling Day

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The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure was developed to help scientists study coral reef diversity and have now been adopted broadly to study diversity around the world.
Article

Uncovering Biodiversity… with ARMS and a Submarine Claw

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
Article

How Do Sea Lions Swim?

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Inside the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason.
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Views from the ROV Jason

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Melissa Frey, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Rubenstein Fellow, examines a Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a chilly day in Sidney, British Columbia. In addition to holding an EOL Fellowship, Melissa is a Research Associate at the Royal BC Museum, where she continues to engage in taxonomic studies.
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Taxonomic studies

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"Barely a room onboard escaped being turned into a part of the sequencing laboratory," wrote Rob Edwards in a blog post about doing genomic sequencing at sea.
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The Trials of Ship-Bound Research

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This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.
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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

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