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Pirate William Dampier's shipboard artist carefully recorded the species that Dampier found new and unusual.
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Australian Fish and Cuttlefish

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Stede Bonnet at his hanging in Charleston, North Carolina
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Stede Bonnett’s Fate

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Blackbeard's head suspended from the end of a bowsprit.
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Blackbeard’s Head

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The next time you use any of the following words, think of William Dampier. They are just a few of the more than 1,000 words Dampier contributed to the English language: Avocado, Barbeque, Breadfruit, Cashew, Chopsticks, Posse, Tortilla.
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Dampier in the dictionary

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Pirates divide up the riches they plundered.
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Sharing the Booty

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A placard warns residents that water—and anything else—that goes own this storm drain makes its way into the Potomac River and, eventually the ocean.
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Marked Storm Drain

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A beautiful larval (baby) octopus collected during a research cruise near Florida.
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Larval Octopus

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Worldwide, installations of solar energy doubled from 2007 to 2008. China is leading the way in solar cell production.
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Installing Solar Panels

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program
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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

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Tiny jellies in a petri dish.
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Velella velella Jellies

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With all the talk of ocean calamities are ocean scientists and communicators making the same mistake as Chicken Little?
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Chicken Little

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One of several rowboats that were sunk in front of Lake Hotel at Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park in the early 20th century.
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Sunken Rowboat at Yellowstone National Park

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