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Students studying climate change create an electric car.
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Aquarium of the Pacific Delegation

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Students of the Alaska SeaLife Center delegation.
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Alaska SeaLife Center Delegation

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Millions of sharks are caught each year for their dorsal fins, which are prized for shark fin soup. Top predators like sharks are important to maintaining biodiversity, and their removal can have ripple effects through an ecosystem.
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Finned Sharks in South Africa

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Photograph of a transparent comb jelly against a dark sea.
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Bioluminescent Comb Jelly

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Photograph of several large jellyfish with orange bells, dark red tentacles, and pale ruffly oral arms, swimming against a bright blue aquarium background.
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Pacific Sea Nettles

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A juvenile swimming crab sits on a bed of sargassum seaweed.
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Adult Swimming Crab

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Winner of the ‘best camoflauge’ contest, the nudibranch Scyllaea pelagica is betrayed only by motion.
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Seaslug Camouflages in Seaweed

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Brown grass shrimp on a floating piece of seaweed.
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Brown Grass Shrimp

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This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.
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Shrimp hides in the sargassum

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The sargassum hosts bryozoans, hydroids and more obviously, crustaceans like a baby swimming crab.
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Tiny Crab in the Sargassum

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Sargassum forms dense clumps up to the size of a beach ball that slowly rotate as they drift.
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Floating Sargassum Seaweed

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