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Photograph of a transparent comb jelly against a dark sea.

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Bioluminescent Comb Jelly

January 2010

Globotruncana falsostuarti -- a foram that lived about 75 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period.

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Globotruncana falsostuarti

March 2010

Grey reef sharks are among the most versatile and tough predators on a Pacific coral reef, but they are also among the most vulnerable species, as they are threatened by wasteful fishing practices like shark finning.

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Grey Reef Shark in the Line Islands

September 2015

Photograph of a bright yellow fish.

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Tagged Atlantic Cod

January 2010

The Macquarie Island site in Australia was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie oceanic ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific p

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Macquarie Island, Australia

November 2010

Elders bless a new canoe with lighted sage, song, and traditional dances.

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Blessing a New Canoe

January 2010

A life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix hangs in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.

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Model of Phoenix

January 2010

The Carrie Bow Cay Marine Field Station supports marine research year-round.

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Field Station at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize

January 2010

These zooplankton collected on a research cruise include a jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two large orange shrimp, a fuzzy pyrosome (which is bioluminescent), and several smaller animals.

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Counting the Ocean's Diversity

February 2018

A map that shows wind and current patterns of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.

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A Possible Pathway for the Pumice

August 2012

Large container ships at port, discharging ballast water in the Port of Oakland

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Ballast Water in the Port of Oakland

July 2011

The bright, brilliant swirls of blue and green seen from space are a phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea.

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Geoengineering Phytoplankton Blooms

January 2014