If you spend time on a boat, snorkeling, or looking at fish tanks, you may quickly realize that life underwater looks incredibly different than animals and other life that lives on the surface.

If you’re obsessed with ocean animals, you might just be a future marine biologist or aquarist. Both careers revolve around aquatic life, but they play very different roles in understanding and caring ...

Encountering a Black marine biologist, marine scientist, and even Black certified scuba divers is rare, even in 2024. Zippia data shows that only three percent of all marine biologists identify as ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. '00, studies the impact of human activities on ocean ecosystems. (Courtesy) Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, ...

MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren’t cooperating. The Garvin didn’t start out as a research vessel. Initially, it was a dive boat that took people to wrecks on the East ...

Marine biologists play a crucial role in Australia’s ecological stewardship, particularly in understanding and conserving the unique marine ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef. Their expertise ...

Marine biologist and Rolex Associate Laureate Emma Camp joins Elex Michaelson from Sydney, Australia, to talk about coral reefs, the significance of them, and the work she does to help them as part of ...

Scott Rapoport earned his PhD in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2003. Drawn to Scripps for its unique blend of engineering and marine biology, Rapoport ...

When a pod of nearly 100 pilot whales stranded themselves last week on the shore of an Australian beach, it became the latest instance of a phenomenon that has long baffled marine biologists. Wildlife ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. When I ...