Tidepool Sculpins – Fish that Breathe out of Water
Sculpins are small little fish that you often see in the shallow tidepools from Southern California up to Alaska. They
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Marine Science
Spirals in Time
Reading Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma) will leave you with an appreciation for
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Phytoplankton – Without Them We Die
Plankton are some of the most diverse, unusual, and minuscule organisms in the world that are critical to our food
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Big Weather Equals Big Surf
As we gear up for a vicious 2015-2016 El Niño winter, we have already seen reports of spectacular waves hitting the
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Three Cloaking Technologies Found in Fish
The variety of fish is a testament to the creative ways in which they have adapted to their environment. Some
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The Ocean – Our Last Great Wilderness
Ocean – The World’s Last Wilderness Revealed by the American Museum of Natural History is a stunning portrait of our marine environment.
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Rubber Duckies Hit the High Seas
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science is a stunning portrayal
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Chitin – The Wonder Molecule of the Ocean
Every now and then chitin or its commercial derivative, chitosan, appear in the news with a new application. In a recent
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The Remarkable Existence of Mussels
Many of us have seen mussels on the beach as clusters of dark shells attached to rocks in the intertidal
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Emoji in Tsunami Messaging
Do you know where the tsunami warning signs are on your beach? Have you ever seen one? Two recent studies
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