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The Block Island wind farm is the first operational offshore wind farm in the United States. It consists of five wind turbines which powered up in December 2016 and were connected to the mainland energy grid in May 2017. 
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Wind Turbines off of Block Island

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Satellite view of Earth.
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A Different View of Earth

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a graphic of a boat towing a trawl
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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

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a blue larval cusk eel with a protruding gut
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Spilled Guts

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A southern African frilled shark
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A Toothy Grin

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A graph showing rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over time.
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Ocean Acidification Graph

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he pineapplefish has glowing organs that can be used to find prey at night.
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I Found the Pineapple!

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Harbor seal in a kelp forest near Cortes Bank, near San Diego California.
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Harbor Seal in a Kelp Forest

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Once common in the West Indies, the Black Capped Petrel (Pterodroma hasitata), which breeds in high Caribbean mountains, is now on the endangered species list.
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Black-Capped Petrel

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These shrimp-like crustaceans called Gnathophausia are incredibly hardy and only need to eat every few months.
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Intense Fasting

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Arctic Tern on the Inner Farne Island.
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Arctic Tern

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Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
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Eat Your Methane Wheaties

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