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Sunset over a fishing net.
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Technology and Sea Turtles

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a light painted image of a red and white squid
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Light Painting of a Jellyfish

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Purple, pink and green corals growing underwater on a metal fence-like substrate.
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The Coral Gardener

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Hermit crabs, like this one collected in Moorea, usually protect their soft, vulnerable abdomens from predators by reusing empty snail shells. This specimen shows the crab without its customary borrowed shelter.
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Hermit Crab Without a Shell

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Two Adélie penguins face each other while lying on ice.
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Adélie Penguins Face Off

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Woods Hole researchers sample oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico
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Woods Hole Scientists Respond to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

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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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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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A Hawaiian petrel in flight
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4,000 Years of Marine History through the Eyes of a Seabird

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a red snapper's ear stone in the palm of someone's hand
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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime

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In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due to a warmer winter climate resulted in hundreds of seal pups being washed up on the shore of Prince Edward Island. Like many, this young seal faced an uncertain future. See more Nature's Best Photos.
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Harp Seal, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada

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