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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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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Whale Earwax

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a blue larval fish with fanning spines
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Larval Cyclopsetta

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Flower-like clusters of pink polyps make up this coral colony.
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Coral Colony

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A close-up photo of dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), living in the Baltic Sea.
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Dead Man’s Fingers

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A few corals are part of this small sampling of the approximately 35 million specimens represented in the invertebrate zoology collection housed at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Specimens from the Smithsonian Invertebrate Zoology Collection

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One of the most impressive photosynthesizers is a cyanobacterium called Prochlorococcus. It is estimated to be more abundant than any other photosynthesizer on the planet, and to be responsible for producing 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
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Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution

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A map of of the Caribbean, featuring the island of Curaçao.
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Curaçao

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Polar bears are threatened by a lack of sea ice.
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Polar Bears on "Thin" Ice

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The title "Frozen Obsession" over an icy landscape background
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Frozen Obsession Documentary

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Two young women with seafood on a tarp
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Indonesia Fish Market

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A close up image of green macroscopic algae.
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Macroscopic Algae (Acetabularia crenulata)

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