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Pumice is the air-filled rock ejected by volcanoes during eruptions. The naturally-occurring pumice originated elsewhere, but can be found scattered on the beaches and mangroves of Belize. Here it is perched upon some mangrove prop roots.

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Pumice in Mangrove Roots

October 2017

Karen Romano Young's 3rd AntarcticLog

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AntarcticLog 3

February 2018

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

Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.

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Deep-sea Octocoral on Okeanos Mission

October 2017

A school of mahi mahi.

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Schooling Mahi Mahi

April 2017

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

August 2017

Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim

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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

January 2015

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

Like a typical jelly, the tentacles of Haliscera biglowi trail behind it as it moves, causing water flow to push small organisms into the path of the jelly’s deadly stinging grip.

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Stinging Grip

March 2016

Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

January 2015

A comic from illustrator Karen Romano Young.

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Antarctic Log 2.2

March 2018

Rhabdosoma’s uncommon eye arrangement allows the animal to see 360 degrees.

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360-Degree Eyesight

March 2016