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![A green mahi-mahi fish underwater](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/NOAA_Mahi.jpg.webp?itok=n-EcUQQ9)
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Fish Heart Out of Water
Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at......
June 2018
![a red snapper's ear stone in the palm of someone's hand](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/29097321707_a968edfcbc_o.jpg.webp?itok=MkQ5mG0D)
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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime
Slice through the trunk of a tree and you reveal a pattern of rings that grow out......
December 2019
![the foamy surface of the ocean](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/wave-1215449_1280.jpg.webp?itok=SDxCpOpC)
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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion
From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year......
February 2019
![an oyster shell on a beach](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/pacific-oyster-57652_1920.jpg.webp?itok=5Fdwy_xz)
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can...
December 2018
![Oil on the water’s surface in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/GulfOilSlick750.jpg.webp?itok=TR0lE9P2)
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#GulfSpillFlashback: Giving the Gulf Oil Spill the Consideration It Deserves
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico,......
April 2015
![A view of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as seen from a NOAA research aircraft, June 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/DWH_oil_credit_UCSB_LR.jpg.webp?itok=QKqeUKDy)
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Let's Get Our Hands Dirty This Women's History Month
In the ocean world, there are many women to celebrate during Women’s History......
March 2015
![Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources, surveying oiled sargassum seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/sargassum-oil-deepwater-horizon.jpg.webp?itok=g7TuoZsy)
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig......
April 2012
![Small foram shells in seafloor sediment. Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/globobulimina-affinis.png.webp?itok=L3w9mcng)
Personal Perspectives
Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill
You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so......
June 2014
![A sunset over marshland near Ocean City, N.J.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/MarshSunsetFlickrTonyMisfit_0.jpg.webp?itok=u-9_XkRm)
Personal Perspectives
One Step Closer to a Healthier Ocean
The year 2010 will likely be remembered as a tragic time for the ocean. Yet,......
July 2010
![Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/4666757323_1.jpg.webp?itok=zPwiP37I)
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?
Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they......
June 2010
![A tiny larval (baby) starfish.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/66d_0.jpg.webp?itok=ETC4QIyH)
Personal Perspectives
The Invisible Loss: The Impacts of Oil You Do Not See
Since late April, the world has watched a devastating oil spill from a BP drilling......
June 2010
![Students share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.](/sites/default/files/styles/3_2_large/public/2023-11/microscopes1_0.jpg.webp?itok=jIZEIQK8)
Personal Perspectives
A Current Event in the Classroom: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Sometimes, a tragic event can become a powerful teaching opportunity. The...
May 2010