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Portrait of a scallop with black and white striped lips, whose shell is encrusted with a red sponge.
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Scallop

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The Gyre is an abstract piece symbolizing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large ocean vortex that collects trash from around the Pacific Ocean.
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The Plastic Gyre

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If this chick had survived, it could have lived a long time: Laysan albatrosses are very long-lived birds. The oldest known wild bird is a 62-year old Laysan albatross named “Wisdom,” who still rears chicks on Midway Atoll.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 9

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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program
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Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine participants in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

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Curator and Research Scientist Lynne Parenti with student Shao-i Wang on a moped with fish collection gear
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Lynne Parenti NMNH Fishes Curator

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An underwater photo of a diver with a camera shooting video of a whale.
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Whale on Camera

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A sea star brought up from a benthic ROV dive.
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Sea star, Captured by ROV

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Benthic scientists are interested in organisms on the seafloor.
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The ‘Mud People'

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A Fish Graveyard
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Fish Graveyard

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boats sweeping up the oil slick
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Sweeping up the Oil Slick

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Auster gets ready to study fish predators at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Georgia.
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Auster Prepares to Dive

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An orange sunset over the ocean.
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