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A diver cares for the reef by cleaning up discarded fishing gear and garbage.
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Diver Cleaning Up Reef

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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico impacts the coast at Pass a Loutre, La.
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Oil on blue gloved hand

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Three Killer whales (Orca) swim along side researchers.
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Researchers Studying Killer Whales

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Marine Plastics

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Screenshot of Nancy Knowlton speaking at "Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill"
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Lecture: One Year After the Gulf Oil Spill

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Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.
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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

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a thick multicolored oil sheen on the water inside a boat marina
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Oil on the Water

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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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Moon Jellyfish With Oil & Mucus

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?

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plastic bottles, cans, a yellow hard hat, and other human refuse litters a tropical beach
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Bring Your Own Container to Avoid Trash

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Nancy Rabalais smiling at the camera in a headshot.
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Five Questions with Nancy Rabalais, Tracking Dead Zones In the Gulf

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