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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System consists of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, and several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons, and estuaries. The system's seven sites illustrate the evolutionary h
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Charles Darwin's Ocean Upwelling

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Colorful fireworks go off over the water.
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From Sea to Shining Sea

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scientist Drew-Baker reads a book by her microscope
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Saving Nori

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The 1903 blue whale in the Natural History Museum
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A Whale at the Museum

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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea Octocoral on Okeanos Mission

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The colorful parrotfish sculpture is made entirely of ocean plastic trash.
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Priscilla the Parrotfish

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This Caribbean sea anemone brightens a variety of Caribbean reef habitats.
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Sea Anemone

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A tiny larval (baby) starfish.
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Larval Starfish

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A shell placed in seawater with increased acidity slowly dissolves over 45 days.
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Ocean Acidification

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Captain William Kidd at Gardiner's Island
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Captain William Kidd

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How do you measure benefits provided by the ocean? Some are easier to measure, like tourism and fishing, but other benefits, like climate change mitigation, are harder to quantify.
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The True Value of Our Oceans

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Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory
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Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

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