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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Learning Ocean Science Through Ocean Exploration

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a manta ray swims up revealing its underside
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Reef Manta Ray

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an algae bloom around Florida is documented by a satellite
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Seeing Algae from Space

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A graph of fisheries and aquaculture
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FAO State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture Production

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A large pink barrel sponge
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Barrel Sponge

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A green mahi-mahi fish underwater
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Up Close with a Mahi Mahi

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a blue larval fish with fanning spines
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Larval Cyclopsetta

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eskimos land a skin boat in the ice
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Siberian Yupik Eskimo Skin Boat

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A healthy, deep sea octocoral and their brittle star partners
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Brittle stars and their best friends the octocorals

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Two young visitors look into the coral reef aquarium at the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall
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Young Visitors to the Sant Ocean Hall

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A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.
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Inside a Sardine Tornado

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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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