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Trash Detective and marine ecologist Chelsea Rochman cruises through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, net in hand, scooping up plastic, fouling communities and more.
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Trash Detectives at Work

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The sun sets over the Smithsonian’s marine field station at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. For more than three decades, it has been home to the Smithsonian’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Program.
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Sunset at Carrie Bow Cay

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Marine scientists photographed and measured this gorgonian coral and deep-sea shrimp just as they were collected—together.
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Deep-sea Coral and Shrimp

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Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are named for their large heads and strong jaws, which allow them to eat prey with hard shells, like big marine snails. They live throughout the world’s warm tropical and subtropical oceans. They live off-shore when t
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Loggerhead Turtle

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A marine mammal scientist listens for bowhead whales using an underwater hydrophone.
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Listening for Bowhead Whales

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S. pharaonis. Photographed in an aquarium at the visitor's center for the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon State University.
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Pharaoh Cuttlefish

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Shabnam Mohammadi working on radio telemetry of snakes in Thailand, 2007
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EOL Fellow Shab Mohammadi

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A scientist measures the length of a shark
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Sizing it Up

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an old illustration of an eel
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The European Eel

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scientists in life jackets await the retrieval of a big net off the back of ship
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Working the Back Deck

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White abalone
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White Abalone In Danger

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a sea turtle swims toward the surface
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Sea Turtle Goes Up for Air

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