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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
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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
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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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
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Splash – Monitoring Humpback Whales

Students learn the importance of monitoring endangered marine mammals like humpback...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:26
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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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The Best Hope for Northern Right Whales

Students engage in a simulation to see how whales can have trouble avoiding ships....
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:05
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Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.
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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
Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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
Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.
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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
A puffin with a mouthful of fish.
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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
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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...
July 2013
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
Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

We drove down a long dirt road on the northern side of Curaçao looking for a...
July 2011

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