Personal Perspectives

Sequencing at Sea: Studying Small Things Using Big Equipment

Microbes are some of the most important organisms in the sea. These miniscule...

Personal Perspectives

Thirty Days to Submission: How I Made a Video for Ocean180

How do you explain a scientific paper in three minutes or less? What if you were...

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How a Microscopic Team Alters the Course of Carbon in the Atlantic Ocean

The Amazon river is the largest river in the world. It drains the entire Amazon...

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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...

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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

Any floating object in the ocean tends to attract life; fishermen know this and...

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Riftia Worms: One Species at a Time

In this episode of the Podcast of Life, host Ari Daniel Shapiro dives deep to...

Meet the Tiny Bacteria That Give Anglerfishes Their Spooky Glow

Descend two hundred meters (about 656 feet) below the surface and the ocean is...

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...

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Working in the Dark

Most of the viruses in the ocean are unknown, but scientists are working to fix...

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A Kelp's Slime

Kelp provide a home for microbes to grow on—they're the reason kelp are so slimy....

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A Microbial World

We live in a microbial world. The ocean is home to innumerable microbes, so many...