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Karen Romano Young's 19th AntarcticLog comic

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AntarcticLog 19

February 2018

Scientists use satellite images of the ocean to estimate chlorophyll concentrations in the water. You can see the yellow swirls of phytoplankton concentrated at the sea surface in this image.

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Satellite Image of Chlorophyll Concentration

July 2017

Portrait of Mary Anning, before 1842

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Portrait of Mary Anning, before 1842

March 2016

You can explore the Curasub from your computer! Inspect, launch, board and recover to get an idea of what it's like to mann an underwater submersible.

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Tour the Curasub!

May 2015

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

January 2016

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

August 2017

Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank

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Walter Adey and Coral Reef Tank

November 2017

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

March 2016

Hastigerinella digitata's many spines support sticky, hair-like “fishing lines” made from cytoplasm (the living part of a cell – mostly fluid, salts and proteins) that entangle prey.

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Tiny, but Deadly

March 2016

Drifters, Dye, and Drones: How can you follow 3.19 million barrels of spilled oil? Researchers with GoMRI's CARTHE project have set out drifters—big and small—that relay their GPS locations every five minutes. These data can help scientists understand

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Drifters, Dye, and Drones

February 2015

A emperor penguin chick sits under its mother's legs.

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Emperor Penguin Chick with Mother

December 2017

Bathochordaeus stygius are filter feeders closely related to sea squirts in the phylum Chordata, the same phylum to which humans belong.

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Mucus Home

March 2016