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Photo Spread showing a shrimp cleaning a fishes mouth from Citizens of the Sea
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Open Wide: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

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This ivory sculpture from Point Barrow, Alaska, represents Kikámigo, a guardian spirit, holding a whale in each hand.
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Inupiat Guardian Spirit

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Photograph of many tiny transparent larval squid surrounding the head of a dissecting pin.
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Squid Babies

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Marc Frischer from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography studies bacteria at a Smithsonian field station.
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Investigating Bacteria

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Flower-like clusters of pink polyps make up this coral colony.
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Coral Colony

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On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.
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The Island of Moorea

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Sea lions generate thrust, or forward propulsion, by bringing their fore-flippers together in big sweeping motions called “claps.”  When a sea lion “claps,” it stretches its flippers out to the sides and sweeps them down. Then it tucks its flippe
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Aquatic Locomotion of a Sea Lion

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Mangroves are being decimated by human development, like this shrimp farm in Belize.
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Former Mangrove Forest

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Ruth Meadows examines specimens as part of her Teacher at Sea experience. NOAA Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows sorts specimens aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem (MAR-ECO) project.
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Teacher at Sea Ruth Meadows

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These Smithsonian field stations enable scientists worldwide to conduct long-term studies on mangrove ecosystems.
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Location of Smithsonian Field Stations

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a loggerhead Sea Turtle
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Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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an illustration of pufferfish species and their relatives
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Pufferfishes and Their Relatives

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