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And in Edgewater, Maryland, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center examine the influences of climate change, excess nutrients, and surrounding habitats on mangroves
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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Great White Sharks are powerful swimmers, capable of going 50 kph/35 mph.
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Built for Speed

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A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) recovers a volcano monitor from an underwater observatory.
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ROV Recovers Volcano Monitor

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Bottlenose dolphin pod
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Bottlenose Dolphin Pod

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400 to 1,000 year old bones from an endangered seabird, the Hawaiian petrel. Bones such as these provide a window into the lives of seabirds before and after human arrival in the open ocean environments of the North Pacific.
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Petrel Bones Help Us Understand History

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Pelicans gather at the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Pelicans Perch on Oil Booms

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A pile of bycatch species.
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A Net Full of Bycatch

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Photograph from above of two right whales, one touching the tip of its mouth to the back of the other..
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Two North Atlantic Right Whales

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This mangrove island in Belize was cleared and dredged to create sand beaches.
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Mangrove Island Clear-Cut for Tourism

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S. pharaonis. Photographed in an aquarium at the visitor's center for the Hatfield Marine Science Center at Oregon State University.
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Pharaoh Cuttlefish

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At the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, Dr. Wayne Sousa (right) studies lightning impacts.
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Field Research in Panama

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These corals are dead—smothered in sediments and overgrown with algae.
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Dead Coral Overgrown with Algae

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