Search
Trash Detective and microbial ecologist Peter Davison and crew haul in the Oozeki net, used to collect fish and other organisms living between 650 and 2,600 feet, at sunrise. Operations aboard the SEAPLEX cruise happened 24 hours a day around the clock.
Photo

Oozeki Net

View Image
Plastic does not biodegrade; it photodegrades, which means that sunlight breaks it down into smaller and smaller pieces. These bits of plastic and plankton were collected during a 3:00 am manta net tow, and are just a sample of the plankton-like plastic pi
Photo

Plastic Bits from the Gyre

View Image
Trash Detective and marine ecologist Chelsea Rochman cruises through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, net in hand, scooping up plastic, fouling communities and more.
Photo

Trash Detectives at Work

View Image
Hatchetfish photographed moments after being pulled from the deep sea in the Oozeki net trawl. These small, silvery fish have large eyes to collect any sunlight that reaches the deep sea. Even in the deep, they are not immune to human impacts; the research
Photo

Hatchetfish

View Image
This 1936 blue whale specimen from the Gulf of Alaska (above: preserved in alcohol, below: CT scan) is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses that were collected in association with commercial whaling operations in the early to mid-20th cen
Photo

Blue Whale Specimen

View Image
Dr. Maya Yamato and colleague John Ososky dissect the head of a deceased stranded fin whale in the Chesapeake Bay to examine soft tissue associated with the ears. In 2015, Yamato’s team of researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural H
Photo

Learning From A Stranded Fin Whale

View Image
The red seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Gverm).
Photo

Gracilaria vermiculophylla

View Image
Scientists process ARMS
Photo

Processing ARMS

View Image
A view outside the Curasub.
Photo

Visiting the Deep Sea In Curasub

View Image
The Curasub is deployed by the R/V Chapman
Photo

R/V Chapman and Curasub

View Image
Corals Get Covered: The Gulf oil spill was different from many big oil spills in history because oil spewed from a well in the deep sea instead of leaking onto the ocean's surface. GoMRI scientists have found that oil remains in the deep to this day—and
Photo

Corals Get Covered

View Image
Sparrows Send a Message: Seabirds, like the often-photographed pelican, can be hurt when oil soaks their feathers during an oil spill. But what about birds that live on land? A group of GoMRI researchers are studying seaside sparrows, birds that live in ma
Photo

Sparrows Send A Message

View Image