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Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

When a whale dies, the story has just begun. The massive carcass sinks to the...

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Bacteria Live in the Titanic Wreck

The Titanic's sinking around 100 years ago created a new underwater habitat for...

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Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

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

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Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule...

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Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...

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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...

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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

Any floating object in the ocean tends to attract life; fishermen know this and...

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From Field to Lab: How Carbon Seeps Provide a Chance to See Future Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Every year, humans spew billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the...

Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow

Descend two hundred meters (about 656 feet) below the surface and the ocean is...

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...

Marine Snow: A Staple of the Deep

Snow on land can make some people grumpy, but the magical-looking flakes and a...

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The Microbial Loop

Invisible to the naked eye, molecular pieces of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates,...