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This piece of pocillopora, or cauliflower coral, would normally have a rigid outer skeleton, but researchers dissolved it to expose the coral’s tissue and take a sample for DNA analysis.
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Cauliflower Coral - Pocillopora

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Dr. Ilka C. “Candy” Feller studies mangroves in the small streams of Panama.
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Dr. Candy Feller Explores Mangroves

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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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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Dispersant Deployed From The Air

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A school of bluefin tuna
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna School

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Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Roca Partida Sea Mount, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico
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Giant Pacific Manta Ray, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico

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Aerial image of Hurricane Bill
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Hurricane Bill

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A collage of the wildlife found in one cubic foot on the reef near Moorea, French Polynesia.
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One Cubic Foot of Reef

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Algae has overtaken this coral reef off heavily populated Kiritimati, or Christmas Island.
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Unhealthy Coral Reef, Kiritimi, Line Islands

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When Great Shearwaters are blown ashore by strong winds and storms, they have to be taken to a rehabilitation center before being released back to the ocean.
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Great Shearwater Release

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a fossilized ancient sea creature
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Wiwaxia

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A Florida manatee swims through a channel into a freshwater spring late in the day.
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Florida Manatee

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