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Map of seasonal area restrictions for ships in Northeast U.S.
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Seasonal Management of Right Whales

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A starfish eating a mussel.
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Starfish Feeding on Mussels

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A close-up image of Johnson's seagrass growing in sand.
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Johnson's Seagrass

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A side-view of a blenny fish with a back background.
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Blenny Fish - Haptoclinus dropi

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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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A pair of French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) swim off the coast of Brazil.
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Pair of Angelfish

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Graduate students Danielle Young from Temple University and Dannise Ruiz from Penn State preparing oil and dispersant solutions for exposure experiments with deep sea corals aboard the exploration vessel E/V Nautilus.
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Testing Impacts of Dispersants

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Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

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

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Basking shark
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Basking Shark

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A prickly dogfish swims in blue water near the ocean's bottom.
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Prickly Dogfish

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A humpback whale
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A Humpback Calf

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