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the foamy surface of the ocean
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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion

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an oyster shell on a beach
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition

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a red snapper's ear stone in the palm of someone's hand
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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime

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Tiny jellies in a petri dish.
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Fishing for Plastic: Science in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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The coastline of American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary
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The Reefs of American Samoa: A Story of Hope

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Fighting Plastic From Every Angle

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

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Cleaning up abandoned fishing nets
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Upcycled Ocean Plastic

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With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.
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Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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