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Sea otters floating on the surface of the ocean.
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Sea Otters in Elkhorn Slough

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Field experiments conducted by the Zostera Experimental Network (ZEN) explored seagrass biodiversity.
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ZEN Research

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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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Microbial Layers In the Sand

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Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H
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Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

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Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
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Eat Your Methane Wheaties

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This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.
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Deep Sea Squid

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Portrait of Ángeles Alvariño
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Ángeles Alvariño

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A sunset off a dock
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Gulf Sunset

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"Ocean sunfish" by Mark Harris
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Ocean Sunfish

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A piece of marine debris, in the form of a Spam container, found on the deep-sea floor of the Marianas Trench. 
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Marine Debris in Marianas Trench

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NMNH intern in the lab.
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It's All In the DNA

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A sediment plume from the mouth of the Mississippi River into the Gulf.
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Mississippi River Delta

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