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three women in hard hats carry a core sample

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Career Spotlight- Marta Torres

March 2022

This copepod (Gaussia princeps) was collected deeper than 1000 meters in the Sargasso Sea by Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) researchers in April 2006.

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Five Questions with Russ Hopcroft, Zooplankton Whiz

May 2014

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A sea monster attacks a wooden ship

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The Enchanting Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps

October 2013

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a cartoon of a scientist on a research vessel

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I Was a Kid- Stories of How Scientists Got to Where They are Today

March 2022

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Two skulls belonging to extinct marine mammal herbivores used in the new study, both from the Smithsonian’s collections.

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Marine Mammal Herbivore Skulls

October 2017

A view of McMurdo Station with a frozen Ross Sea in the background.

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McMurdo Station

September 2014

Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.

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Serpent Pteraeolidia

May 2015

Screenshot from video with large kelp leaves floating in the ocean.

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A Kelp's Slime

July 2019

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A pile of dissolving sea stars.

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Dead, Diseased Sea Stars

December 2013

a manatee and school of fish a the ocean's bottom

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Florida Manatee

October 2018

a ships sets a purse seine.

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Purse Seine

April 2021

a sea butterfly with leaf like wings

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If Leaves were Wings

March 2021