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We are thankful for our remarkable ocean planet “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” ~ Carl Sagan via NASA, ID: as17-148-22727 View of the Earth seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon
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Pic o' the Week: Rocks Adorned With Magical Sealife
© Trent Olson We live on a remarkable ocean planet with magic embedded in its every inch. Notice it.Trent Olson lives in the coastal town of Tillamook, Oregon. Trent is a self-described “digital creator” who chronicles his local community on his Facebook page. I love the deep rich colors of the rock, sea anemones and sea stars as we patiently wait for the tide to come back in on the Tillamook…
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Pic o' the Week: Pyrosomes on the Oregon coast
Pyrosomes on the beach, sea foam in the background. Photo © Seaside Aquarium From the people at Seaside Aquarium on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Oregon: “Beachcombing at its finest: We have been seeing a lot of fun pelagic invertebrates on the beach lately and thought we would share them with you. Most notably have been large pyrosomes. Almost all of the ones we have spotted have been…
Spotlight: Ocean Meditation for a Tense Moment
Our remarkable ocean planet has endured for countless millennia, and some of the oldest creatures – horseshoe crabs – have been living on this earth for hundreds of millions of years. Our eternal ocean, Humboldt, California, USA. Photo © Jeffery Schwartz People in the United States, and indeed much of the world, are tensely living through this US Election Day. Relieve the anxiety, relax and…
Pic o' the Week: Jelly Shields Jack Fish
Jack fish uses jelly as protection. Image © Katherine Lu OPOTY 2024 We all need help at times from our fellow inhabitants on this earth. This jack fish found the perfect shelter needed in this moment, a neighboring jelly. Katherine Lu was lucky to be there at the right moment and skillfully snapped this freeze-frame of symbiosis in action. But jellies aren’t necessarily a safe shelter, they…
Oceanwire Pic o' the Week: Giant Wave Clouds on the Pacific Ocean
Oceanwire Pic o' the Week: Giant Wave Clouds on the Pacific Ocean
We live on an amazing planet 🌍 ✨
“Wave” clouds, or Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, seen from Whidbey Island looking toward Possession Point on Sept. 3. Photo © Cathy O’Keefe A stun
Pic o' the Week: Puffin Nosh in the North Sea
Oceanwire Pic o' the Week: Puffin Nosh in the North Sea
© Steve Garvie/Rainbirder “An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) carries many sandlances (Ammodytidae) in its mouth to take back to its hungry chick. Puffins have spiny tongues that, pressed against the roof of their mouths, help to hold ten or more fish at once without losing any along the way. The two parents of a single chick take turns bringing food back to the nest. It’s possible to learn…
Spotlight: A Flat Flounder's Gaze
Flounder, Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida. © Tamara Christian It’s not quite a cloak of invisibility but it can be pretty close. The ability of flounder’s to lie on the ocean floor and nearly completely blend in is one of the best camouflages in nature. Only the eyes give it away. Sharp-eyed photographer Tamara Christian spotted this flounder while diving at Blue Heron Bridge in the…
Pic o' the Week: Luminescent Caribbean Corals
Just off the coast of Aruba in the Caribbean Sea, photographer Nicolas Marin snapped this glowing, jade-coloured coral. The striking luminescence was captured under ultraviolet light during a night dive. “This photo is important because it showcases the wonder and fragility of marine life and the need to protect it,” said Marin in a statement. “Bioluminescence is a fascinating natural phenomenon…
Pic o' the Week: Earthrise - Our Remarkable Ocean Planet
The first time humans saw our remarkable ocean planet from space they were astonished. Earthrise, seen from Apollo 8 by Astronaut Bill Anders, December 24, 1968 This beautiful blue marble is our unique ocean planet — the only planet we know of with an ocean. And that global ocean, all the named oceans that interconnect around the globe, covers an astounding seventy percent of our…
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Spotlight: The Pearly Whites of Parrotfish
photo © @ollieclarkphotos The pearly whites of a parrotfish almost look harmless in this close-up, but parrotfish constantly chomp on coral with these incredibly strong teeth. How can they do that without wearing down? A 2018 study astonished researchers, revealing that parrotfish teeth are a woven microstructure that “researchers had never seen before, with the crystals oriented in interwoven…
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Spotlight: The Miraculous Corals We Could Lose to the Climate Emergency
Coral reefs are one of the miracles living in our planet’s remarkable ocean. They’re symbiotic communities of living organisms, a true marvel of biological processes. But their survival is severely threatened by climate change. Here’s what we’re losing, from whip corals to fan corals to stony corals to lophelia corals to coral species that haven’t even been discovered yet (after all, humans have…
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Pic o' the Week: Rockfish in Coccolithophore Bloom
Image © Andrew McCurdy ” I spent a while in the shallows with these shy but curious Black Rockfish. I had to sit on the bottom and hold my breath for them to come closer and every time I breathed out they would scatter. The haze in the water is from a coccolithophore bloom, they’re tiny algae that grow calcium carbonate plates as armour. The water turns a milky teal when they bloom like this! ”…
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Pic 'o the Week: Lions Mane Nudie 🫢
Lions mane nudibranch {{ Melibe leonina }} © Bruce Sudweeks “Don’t get this guy confused with Lion’s Mane mushroom, as these nudibranchs are probably far less tasty.” “The lion’s mane nudibranch (Melibe leonina), has an anatomy that is unique from other nudibranchs. Instead of a rasping tongue, it has an expandable oral hood that resembles a lion’s mane, with fringing tentacles designed to trap…
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Pic o' the Week: Nature's Light in Dark Times
In dark times emember nature's spectacular light
Aurora jellies in fjord outside Tromsø in northern Norway. Photo © Audun Rikardsen It seems dark in so many ways … quite literally in the northern hemisphere in the depths of winter, and figuratively around the globe as war and violence rages in Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, and armed conflicts are happening in over one hundred areas in the world. In darkness let’s remember nature’s…
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Dawn on Our Remarkable Ocean Planet
Sunrise at Waipouli Beach. Photo via Waiploui Beach Resort We live on a remarkable ocean planet.Notice it. Treasure it. Do something every day protect it and to foster peace in every place on our amazing and singular Earth. Resolve to, as Carl Sagan said, “…deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and … preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” ✨ .
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