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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Learning Ocean Science Through Ocean Exploration

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Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.
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The Arctic and The Antarctic

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Imagen submarina de dos peces nadando cerca de corales pétreos y ramificados.
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Historias de Éxito de una Boleta de Calificaciones de Reef

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a life size model of a megalodon
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The Model Megalodon

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A clutch bag made from fish skin that is folded into ruffle patterns.
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Origami Fish Leather Clutch

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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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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Crochet Reef
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Detail of The Smithsonian Community Reef

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Black Axil Chromis on a Coral Reef

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Unlike the shallow tropical coral reef at left, the deep-sea Oculina reef at right does not require sunlight.
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Shallow and Deep-Sea Coral Reefs

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Green Sea Turtle, Armeñime, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
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Green Sea Turtle in the Canary Islands, Spain

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