Personal Perspectives

Bacteria on Whale Skin Tell a Tale of Health and Sickness

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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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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Harp Seal, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada

Harp seals are protected in the United States by the Marine Mammal Protection Act....

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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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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

Top predators along the California coast are having a rough year. Recently starving...

Marine Snow: A Staple of the Deep

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

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Microscopic Hitchhiking

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

Lesson Plan

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...

Lesson Plan

Trophic relationships in Arctic marine ecosystems

In this activity, students will be able to describe how ratios of stable nitrogen...