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Sparrows Send a Message: Seabirds, like the often-photographed pelican, can be hurt when oil soaks their feathers during an oil spill. But what about birds that live on land? A group of GoMRI researchers are studying seaside sparrows, birds that live in ma
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Sparrows Send A Message

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A white crab hides among coral polyps of the same color.
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White Xenia Crab from Indonesia

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Photo Spread showing male fish with mouth full of eggs from Citizens of the Sea
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Devoted Dads: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

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Photo Spread showing a shrimp cleaning a fishes mouth from Citizens of the Sea
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Open Wide: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

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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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The Block Island wind farm is the first operational offshore wind farm in the United States. It consists of five wind turbines which powered up in December 2016 and were connected to the mainland energy grid in May 2017. 
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Wind Turbines off of Block Island

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Black Axil Chromis on a Coral Reef

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Although in reality an ichthyosaur and plesiosaur would have likely never battled, this widely shared lithograph by artist, geologist and paleontologist Henry De la Beche even inspired author Jules Verne to pen a similar scene in his book, Journey to the C
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Duria Antiquior – A More Ancient Dorset, 1830

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Leftwich and her team have spent hours filming captive sea lions at Smithsonian’s National Zoo, trying to get clear video footage of the animals clapping so they can examine the way their flippers move from frame to frame. 
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Leftwich at the Zoo Observing Sea Lions

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A refugium tank at the St. Lucie County Aquarium. This tank acts as a safe space to grow corals before transferring them to a larger tank. You can see several staghorn coral colonies - it has a branching structure and the white tips indicate healthy, new g
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Tank at St. Lucie County Aquarium

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Map of seasonal area restrictions for ships in Northeast U.S.
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Seasonal Management of Right Whales

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Algae or "seaweeds" (left) differ from seagrasses (right) in several ways.
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Algae vs Seagrass

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