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For three weeks, the MV Chertan is home-base for the scientific team and will be transformed in a laboratory to study the effect of the CO2 seeps on reefs.
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MV Chertain Lab Boat

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Intense volcanic CO2 vents in Ili Ili Bua Bua, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea.
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Carbon Dioxide Volcanic Seep

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A male sperm whale feeding near the surface.
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Sperm Whale Shows His Teeth

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Narwhals with their long unicorn-like tusks.
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Narwhals Breaching

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A veined octopus briefly leaves its hiding place, a shell, to devour a crab.
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Octopus Eating a Crab

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Museum Specialist Ruth Gibbons, aboard a deep sea research vessel processing specimens
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Ruth Gibbons

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Gentoo penguin mother with her chick in Antarctica.
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Gentoo Penguin Mother and Chick

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A harp seal pup rests on the ice at sunset in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.
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Harp Seal Pup at Sunset

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The eel-like Atlantic hagfish being measured out of water.
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Pacific Hagfish

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A Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) poses in the waters off Acadia National Park in Maine. 
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Grey Seal Strikes a Pose

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Students working on a marine genetics project at the Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center in 2011.
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Students Doing Marine Genetics

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A four-foot long fish sculpture has fins and tail made with recycled rakes.
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The Rakefish Project

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