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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit
One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014
Lesson Plan
Tale of a Whale
Students exercise their observation skills to do some of the actual work of marine...
Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:03
Personal Perspectives
Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012
Personal Perspectives
Excavating a "toothed" baleen whale from Vancouver Island
The whales that we see in today's world can broadly be split into two groups: those...
May 2012
Lesson Plan
Wreck Detectives
Students utilize a grid system to document the location of artifacts recovered from...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 12:08
Personal Perspectives
Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans
If you are a bird watcher you have probably heard of the Christmas Bird Count. The...
June 2014
Personal Perspectives
One Fish, Two Fish: Estimating Undiscovered Species
My father once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those...
December 2012
Five Questions for Richard Carson, Natural Resource Economist
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William...
March 2014
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Where the Shark and the Snapper Roam
The pre-industrial American landscape was once rightly described as a place where...
March 2014
Personal Perspectives
Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!
Jorge and I packed up the night we arrived in Panama with Aaron O'Dea and his team...
June 2011
Personal Perspectives
Swimming With Sharks
Lying in water only a foot deep, I watched the shark meander lazily through the...
October 2011
Personal Perspectives
Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill
You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so...
June 2014