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Bundles of crystals form a woven pattern in parrotfish teeth.
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Crystal Orientation of Parrotfish Teeth

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A Northern right whale swims with her calf.
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Northern Right Whale and Calf

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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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An Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (AMRS) placed on a reef in Bali.
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Biodiversity in Bali

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An ARMS covered in growth after being underwater for a specified period of time.
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ARMS Covered in Growth

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Scientists process ARMS
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Processing ARMS

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Model of a lion’s mane jellyfish on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. This jellyfish, a member of the phylum Cnidaria, can have tentacles up to 190 feet long (58 meters) and a bell almost 7 feet (2 meters) in diameter.
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Lion's Mane Jellyfish in Sant Ocean Hall

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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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Illustration of copepods from Ernst Haeckel.
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Copepods

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Sea anemone illustrations from Ernst Haeckel.
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Sea Anemones

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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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