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Building a Better Dispersant: When we wash dishes at home, we use dish soap to break up and wash away any oil that is stuck to our plates and utensils. Similarly, stronger soap-like chemicals called dispersants can be used to break up oil spills, like thos
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Building a Better Dispersant

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Large organisms, like these tunicates, live inside the recesses of a ship's hull while microscopic organisms form a film across all the painted surfaces on the boat.
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Tunicates On Hull of Boat

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Octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and nautilus all have differently shaped pupils— an octopus has a rectangular pupil.
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Octopus Eyes

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A photo of a red-colored sea anemone photographed in the Baltic Sea.
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Urticina Felina, a Baltic Sea Anemone

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A photograph of a bright blue-speckeled dinoflagellate bioluminescing at night.
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Bioluminescing Dinoflagellate

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A NASA satellite image from August 23, 2011 of Hurricane Irene, the Atlantic basin's first hurricane of 2011.
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Hurricane Irene

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White growth emerges from a deep-sea coral sample stained pink to enable ocean scientists to measure its growth rate.
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Growth Experiment

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The Johnson-Sea-Link submersible returns with a specimen of Keratoisis bamboo coral inside its collection box.
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Submersible with Coral Samples

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A fan-shaped colony of red coral (Corallium sp.) provides a perch for three basket stars as they feed.
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Red Coral

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: A thicket of Lophelia pertusa, a widespread deep sea coral, shelters a squat lobster.
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Coral Thicket with Lobster

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A silhouette of a small boat carrying 8 passengers on tranquil water, with a pink horizon.
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Carteret Islands Row

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A round sea potato with hair-like spikes laying flat against its body.
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Sea Potato

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