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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

September 2010

A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.

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Antarctic Log 2.5

March 2018

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

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ZEN Research

January 2016

This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.

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Deep Sea Squid

March 2016

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

May 2016

Karen Romano Young's 18th #AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 18

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

An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.

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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

January 2015

This 1936 blue whale specimen from the Gulf of Alaska (above: preserved in alcohol, below: CT scan) is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses that were collected in association with commercial whaling operations in the early to mid-20th cen

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Blue Whale Specimen

March 2015

A school of mahi mahi.

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Schooling Mahi Mahi

April 2017

Fish cage with mussel lines suspended around the parameter.

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IMTA System

September 2015

Artist Irene Kopelman draws a mangrove root held in specially constructed aquaria.

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Artist Kopelman Draws a Mangrove Root

October 2017