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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...

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An Aerostat Balloon

An aerostat is readied to deploy....

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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion

From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...

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Drifters Overboard

The drifters are tossed overboard and then tracked via satellite. ...

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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...

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Fish Heart Out of Water

Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...

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A Beating Fish Heart

Following the Deepwater Horizons Oil Spill, oil entered the Gulf of Mexico...

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Bob the Drifter

This video, produced by Waterlust, shows how the Consortium for Advanced Research...

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Gulf Oil Spill

The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within...

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Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

On the deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, ecosystems made up of fish, corals, sea...

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Fish Graveyard

Despite the fears reflected in this photo, we won’t know the full impact of the...

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Shrimp Catch

Shrimp from Campos' Marina. Less than 2 weeks later, the Campos' Marina was shut...