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Rhinochimaera swimming in the Dark.
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Rhinochimera

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EPA divers from Atlanta place this instrument in Charleston Harbor in order to monitor currents and better predict sand movement for a harbor deepening project.
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Measuring Underwater Currents

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The five turbines off of Block Island successfully withstood winter storm Stella in March 2017, and even produced power through most of the storm. 
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Block Island Wind Turbines in Storm

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A placard warns residents that water—and anything else—that goes own this storm drain makes its way into the Potomac River and, eventually the ocean.
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Marked Storm Drain

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Cleaning up abandoned fishing nets
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Cleaning Up Abandoned Fishing Nets

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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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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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