WHOI Sea Grant

In June, before 2026 Knauss Fellow Shari Rohret could settle into her new job responsibilities at NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration in Silver Spring, MD, she was given the opportunity to participate in a 25-day expedition mapping Pacific islands aboard the Okeanos Explorer. As a marine policy and science communication fellow, Shari chronicl...

Ever wonder how those dazzling fish end up in aquarium tanks? At seven U.S. aquariums, scientists and aquarists are pulling off something wild: raising marine fish from newly hatched babies the size of a pinhead into the showstoppers millions come to see.

A new interactive

Shellfish constables in coastal Massachusetts can say goodbye to "PowerPoint purgatory" and hello to an inspired, flexible way of learning!  It took a team of people across multiple agencies and disciplines to change the way the training had been done for decades, but the Massachusetts Shellfish Officers Training Course has officially traded its inte...

July 28, 2026 – A nationwide collaboration among public aquariums and research institutions has developed new methods to ...