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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug
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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

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A puffin sits on a rock next to a puffin decoy.
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Puffin and Decoy

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Plastic does not biodegrade; it photodegrades, which means that sunlight breaks it down into smaller and smaller pieces. These bits of plastic and plankton were collected during a 3:00 am manta net tow, and are just a sample of the plankton-like plastic pi
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Plastic Bits from the Gyre

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Cystisoma (a type of hyperiid crustacean) has one huge pair of eyes.
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Giant Eyes

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Illustrations of radiolarians from Ernst Haeckel.
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Radiolarians

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Jellyfish illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Semaeostome Jellyfish

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An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.
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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

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The red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Gverm).
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Gracilaria vermiculophylla

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The Portage Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska has retreated so much that it is no longer visible from the visitor center built for its viewing in 1986.
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Portage Glacier

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Chelsea Rochman dissects a dorado caught by the crew to see if it had eaten plastic. Nearly 10 percent of all fish collected on the expedition had plastic in their systems.
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Dorado Dissection

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"Break On Through" was taken by Wendy Wolf at California's Pfeiffer Beach. This photo was a winning selection in the Portraits of Planet Ocean Flickr contest.
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Break on Through - Wendy Wolf

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Pumice is the air-filled rock ejected by volcanoes during eruptions. The naturally-occurring pumice originated elsewhere, but can be found scattered on the beaches and mangroves of Belize. Here it is perched upon some mangrove prop roots. 
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Pumice in Mangrove Roots

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