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Beth Josephson launches the drone during spring fieldwork in Cape Cod Bay. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Alison Ogilvie

Simone L. 6th Grade, Michigan

A researcher holds a queen conch in a seagrass bed during an underwater survey in Puerto Rico. Credit: Texas A&M Univers...

The NOAA Ship Pisces heading out of Narragansett Bay to start the spring 2026 Ecosystem Monitoring Survey. This 10-day s...

Multiple coral samples rest in the “coral torpedo,” ready to be sent to the seafloor for technical divers to outplant. C...

NOAA affiliate sea turtle biologist Elizabeth Bevan rescues and examines a cold-stunned green turtle. On the Gulf coast ...

Step 1: Go out to the storage hanger to bundle and pack the survey nets on the NOAA campus in Seattle. Can't catch the f...

This golf ball-sized Atlantic batfish was caught during Leg 1 of our spring 2026 Bottom Trawl Survey. Batfish have wide...

Sarah Shea, Julia Studley, and Katie Dever (left to right) pick up Twix, a female split-colored (bilateral) lobster and ...

Newportal contour map 01/01/2026

We love this photo from fish biologist Mary Kate Munley September 2025 blog ”Shortfin Squid Project ‘Squids Their Stride...

Field scientist Maura Flynn holds a large Northern stone crab on the fall Gulf of Maine Bottom Longline Survey. Credit: ...

Scientists Bridget St Amand, Cameron Fairclough, and Catie Foley process and prepare sea scallops for data collection. H...

Catherine G., 7th grade, Michigan.

The team prepares to depart Pearl Harbor aboard the M/V Imua, bound for the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. ...

Oscar Elton Sette getting ready to set sail from Guam Naval Base for the Northern Mariana Islands on July 7, 2025. Credi...

ORLANDO, FLORIDA (July 2025)—From left to right: Sean Meehan, Southeast Regional Office; Andy Strelcheck, Southeast Regi...

Newportal contour maps 01/22/2025

How do scientists reach remote Dutch Harbor, AK? With its short island runway, travelers arrive aboard a twin-propeller ...