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John Paxton, a scientist who studies marine life, looks into a microscope
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Sleuth at Sea

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Guests at Smithsonian's Natural History Museum's 2010 sustainable seafood event
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Guests at Smithsonian's 2010 Sustainable Seafood Event

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A large ship flushes water from its ballast tanks while at sea
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5 Invasive Species You Should Know

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This mangrove island in Belize was cleared and dredged to create sand beaches.
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Mangrove Island Clear-Cut for Tourism

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The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was used in the Gulf of Mexico directly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 to map oil plumes and to search for hard bottom on the sea floor.
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AUV Sentry

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Members of the Tlingit Nation celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall.
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Celebrating in Washington

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A side-view of two skeleton shrimp.
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Skeleton Shrimp

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Melissa Frey, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Rubenstein Fellow, examines a Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) on a chilly day in Sidney, British Columbia. In addition to holding an EOL Fellowship, Melissa is a Research Associate at the Royal BC Museum, where she continues to engage in taxonomic studies.
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Taxonomic studies

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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A strange looking frilled shark smiles at the camera.
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Frilled Shark

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A pile of bycatch species.
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A Net Full of Bycatch

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