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Changing Seas
At the Water’s Edge: The Salt Marsh
Along scenic coastlines in the South, waves of mesmerizing green and golden grass stretch to the horizon. This is the salt marsh - a part liquid, part solid landscape that is teeming with life. How do scientists study the salt marsh? And how resilient is it to climate change?
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Researchers provide data necessary to protect fish populations from further decline.
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Researchers study what impact ecotourism might have on southern stingrays.
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Researchers are beginning to understand where turtles go during their “lost years.”
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Scientists spend a month in the Galapagos Islands to conduct research.
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The world’s largest known aggregation of whale sharks occurs just off the coast of Cancun.
