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

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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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Two squid mating
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Squid Mating

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Close-up image of white starfish feet.
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Starfish Feet

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Two bright blue mandarine fish mating
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Mating Mandarin Fish

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Photo Spread showing a shrimp cleaning a fishes mouth from Citizens of the Sea
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Open Wide: Photo Spread from Citizens of the Sea

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spinner dolphins in Hawaii
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Spinner Dolphins in Hawaii

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This photograph was snapped as Phoenix swam in the Gulf of Maine in July 2008.
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Phoenix near Maine

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Phoenix is seen skim feeding off the coast of Maine in August 2004.
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Phoenix Feeding

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These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization review.
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Global Status of Marine Fish Stocks

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Microbial Layers In the Sand

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