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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.

July 2013

From Field to Lab: How Carbon Seeps Provide a Chance to See Future Impacts of Ocean Acidification

Tiny organisms found on ARMS

November 2017

Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree

Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.

December 2019

Optimism in the Deep Sea - Connecting Corals, Museums, and Ocean Managers

Bright bubblegum coral sits on a brown, hard substrate.

June 2020

Trials and Tribulations with Contamination

Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.

November 2017

Live from the Field: Bali, Indonesia

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

May 2012

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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.

January 2016

On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.

Overview

Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Five Questions for Carole Baldwin

Smithsonian scientist who discovered new species in her laboratory

March 2011

Ribbon Worm Redux

The ribbon worm seen here, Ramphogordius sanguineus, is known to regenerate after losing a part of its body.

July 2013

On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

Fish swim underwater amidst mangrove roots at Bocas del Toro, Panama.

July 2018

Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

A diver collects water samples.

June 2014