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A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.

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Antarctic Log 2.4

March 2018

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

Hatchetfish photographed moments after being pulled from the deep sea in the Oozeki net trawl. These small, silvery fish have large eyes to collect any sunlight that reaches the deep sea. Even in the deep, they are not immune to human impacts; the research

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Hatchetfish

September 2015

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

September 2010

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

September 2010

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

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

September 2017

Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th

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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

January 2015

Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.

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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

February 2018

Sea squire illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.

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Sea Squirts

June 2015

Follow the Fingerprint: There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil seeps, small spills from ships, and oil from roads that washes into the sea—not to mention big oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. How do GoMRI res

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Layers of Weathered Oil

January 2015

Corolla moves through the water by flapping a wing plate nearly twice the size of its gelatinous shell, giving it the nickname “sea butterfly”.

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Sea Butterfly

March 2016