Personal Perspectives

Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

Many animals depend on their eyes to navigate, find food, locate mates, and for...

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Flippers, Jawbones, and Blowholes: Marine Specimens Inspire Artists

Rachel Caauwe was one of a dozen artists who spent a recent Saturday sketching...

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Researchers Studying Killer Whales

Researchers from the SOCAL-10 research partnership study the behavior of orcas...

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Dolphins Swim in Oily Waters

Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) observed in emulsified oil on April 29,...

Personal Perspectives

Summer Beach Reads

Memorial Day is nearly upon us. We thought it'd be a good time to think about our...

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Marine Parasites: Crazy…and Really Cool!

Marine parasites may be small in size, but they can be present in very high numbers...

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Purse Seine

A purse seine is a huge wall of netting that is set in a circle around a school of...

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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing in which a large net is dragged along the...

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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...

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Parasitic Worms in a Fish

The whitish spots on this fish are individual parasitic trematode worms. Trematodes...

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Siberian Yupik Eskimo Skin Boat

Skin boats were vital for survival of Arctic sea mammal hunters who had to navigate...

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Walrus Lice

The Echinophthiriidae are a family of lice that infect seals, sea lions,...