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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

Marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, and seals have an amazing ability to hold...

Personal Perspectives

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Whales swimming in the ocean are never really alone. Even if one swims by itself...

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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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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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Happy 50th Birthday, FLIP – a Mobile Research Island

Ships are well-known for their tiny rooms and tight quarters. But have you heard of...

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What a Day for Ocean Microbes

For most of us, the term “marine organism” brings to mind images of fishes,...

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Snow on land can make some people grumpy, but the magical-looking flakes and a...

FLIP: The FLoating Instrument Platform

You’re out to sea on a 355 foot platform, and suddenly one end begins to slowly...

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If You Build An Ocean, Sea Monsters Will Come

Building a productive ocean is complicated. The process is long (on the order of...

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Microscopic Hitchhiking

This lesson plan develops concepts on food webs and ecological relationships,...

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Microbes and Climate

This activity is meant to provide students with an understanding of how microbes...

Lesson Plan

Microbes and the Marine Food Web

Food webs demonstrate complex feeding relationships among species in an ecosystem...