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A large, black instrument is hauled onto a ship's deck by researchers wearing hard hats and life vests.
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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

A 1,000-pound metal instrument—about the size of a two-seat Smart car—drops off...
March 2019
a bull shark in a net
Article

How Climate Change is Impacting Shark Mothering

As any mother knows, ensuring the safety of your kids is a tough job. For bull...
July 2018
A screenshot from video of a school of fish swimming.
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Bob the Drifter

This video, produced by Waterlust, shows how the Consortium for Advanced Research...
Fri, 02/07/2014 - 15:35
animation of scan of ocean floor
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Searching for the Plume

Part 4 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 15:28
a burning oil platform
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Sampling the Source

Part 3 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 14:27
spewing oil from broken well
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Science in a Time of Crisis: How Much Oil?

Part 2 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's (WHOI)...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 14:18
An Argo float transmits data
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Taking the Ocean’s Temperature

A fleet of underwater floats called Argo is deployed at more than 3,000 spots...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 14:04
a ship in an icy landscape
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Arctic Exploration

New technology is making it possible for scientists to go where they’ve never...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:45
A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will...
This small drone helped scientists to follow a trail of pink dye tracking ocean movement below the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Following the Dye by Drone

This small drone helped scientists follow a trail of pink dye tracking water...
Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.
Photo

Tracking CARTHE Drifters

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to...
Deep-sea Copepod Head
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Deep-sea Copepod Gets a Close-up

This female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) was collected in the...

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