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Guests at Smithsonian's Natural History Museum's 2010 sustainable seafood event
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Guests at Smithsonian's 2010 Sustainable Seafood Event

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The "Lower Invertebrates" exhibit in Smithsonian Institution Building in 1901 included models of a giant squid and an octopus.
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More Than a Century of Smithsonian Marine Science

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a diagram showing the parts of an ocean wave
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The Anatomy of a Wave

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shallow pans carved out of the sea coast create many pools with a seascape in the background
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The Salt Pans

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A close-up image of the face of a whitemouth moray eel.
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Whitemouth Moray Eel

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a graphic of a boat towing a trawl
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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

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Chuniphyes are siphonophores—colonial organisms in the same phylum as jellyfish, working together to survive.
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Ultimate Teamwork

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Lionfish on the on the Thistlegorm wreck in the Red Sea, Egypt.
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Lionfish in a Whirl

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Small red hyperiid.
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Lanceola

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The view from Fira, Santorini's capital city on the Aegean Sea, includes an active volcanic island formed by the same volcano that formed the Santorini islands.
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Santorini Island View from Fira

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"This shot was taken during a dusk dive in Southern Leyte in the Philippines. I ended the dive with an amazing sunset," wrote Paul Cowell of his winning image.
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Surfacing into a Sunset

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Drifters, Dye, and Drones: How can you follow 3.19 million barrels of spilled oil? Researchers with GoMRI's CARTHE project have set out drifters—big and small—that relay their GPS locations every five minutes. These data can help scientists understand
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Drifters, Dye, and Drones

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