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Leftwich (second from left) and her colleagues examine a robotic sea lion flipper, which is used to replicate and study the motions of a real sea lion flipper.

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Leftwich Examines a Robotic Flipper

October 2017

The five turbines off of Block Island successfully withstood winter storm Stella in March 2017, and even produced power through most of the storm.

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Block Island Wind Turbines in Storm

August 2017

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

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ZEN Research

January 2016

A sea spider walks on the ocean floor.

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Sea Spider

October 2015

Sugar kelp from the “integrated multi-trophic aquaculture” (IMTA) collaboration between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), New Hampshire Sea Grant, the University of New Hampshire, and the Portsmouth Commercial Fisherman's Asso

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IMTA Sugar Kelp

September 2015

Blue mussels use byssus threads (which you can see on the right, in front of the barnacle shell) to attach to rocks and sometimes to stop a predator from making them a meal.

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Byssus Threads on a Blue Mussel

July 2015

With all the talk of ocean calamities are ocean scientists and communicators making the same mistake as Chicken Little?

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Chicken Little

February 2015

Photo Spread with lionfish from Citizens of the Sea

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Hostile Takeovers: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

September 2010

Tiny organisms found on ARMS

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Hidden Diversity

October 2017

Karen Romano Young's 19th AntarcticLog comic

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AntarcticLog 19

February 2018

Tomopteris's bristles produce yellow bioluminescence, a unusual color among midwater animals, nearly all of which make some sort of light.

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Glow Worms

May 2016

A Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), a species with a normal range in the North Atlantic, interacting with the native Brandt’s cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) sighted on the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco, California in t

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Northern Gannet in the Pacific

November 2015