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Image of the Week Archive: 2015

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Blue mussel (<em>Mytilus edulis</em>) larvae at day 17, spawned at the NEFSC Milford Laboratory.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Renee Mercaldo-Allen.
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View from the wheelhouse as the R/V <em>Gloria Michelle</em> heads for the shipyard in New Jersey.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Doug Pawlishen.
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Gulls and shearwaters hoping to catch a free meal during a research cruise.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christopher Sarro.
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Adult stocking (<em>Salmo salar</em>; salmon reared in captivity) from Machias River, Maine.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Tim Sheehan.
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A hermit crab wears a discarded snail shell to protect his soft abdomen.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Gib Chase Photo Archive.
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IBM Room, 1965: Fifty years ago, this was the NEFSC Woods Hole Laboratory's computer room.Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Robert Brigham Photo Archive.
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Sea spiders are slow-moving predators or scavengers on sessile benthic prey like sponges and jellyfish.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Gib Chase.
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Harbor seals (<em>Phoca vitulina</em>) in Maine.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Northeast Fisheries Observer Program.
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Porcupine crab (<em>Neolithodes</em> species) is found in small numbers on the continental slope throughout the northeast.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Vince Guida.
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Margaret Coyle, Chief Steward, and Paul Acob, 2nd Cook, in the <em>Gordon Gunter</em> galley during an EcoMon cruise.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jerry Prezioso.
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Texas A&M student Joseph Losoya and crewman Dante Starks retrieve bongo net array aboard <em>Gordon Gunter</em>.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jerry Prezioso.
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Styrofoam mannequin head submerged on a cruise to demonstrate effects of water pressure compressing it at depth.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jerry Prezioso.
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Starfish on <em>Primnoa</em> coral, Schoodic Ridges.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Gulf of Maine Deep Coral Science Team 2014/NURTEC-UCONN, NOAA Fisheries, UMAINE.
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Ambrose Jearld, Director of Academic Programs, named to inaugural class of AFS Fellows.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Shelley Dawicki.
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Woods Hole aquarium as it was in 1891.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/NEFSC Historical Photo Archive.
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Right whale lobtailing in the North Atlantic.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Christin Khan.
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A section of a chain of salps.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/NEFSC.
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A sandbar shark is brought aboard for tagging during the 2015 coastal shark survey of the US East Coast.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Lisa Natanson.
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One millionth visitor to the Woods Hole Aquarium, Shea Baggeroer (in turquoise hat), with family, friends, and staff.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Shelley Dawicki.
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This tiger shark jaw was a popular photo opportunity at the 2015 Woods Hole Science Stroll.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Shelley Dawicki.
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Intern Kyla Kelly, Dr. Hyun-Jeong Lim and Dr. Suk-Young Kim measure how much phytoplankton clams are eating.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Gary Wikfors.
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Hands-on exhibits like measuring sea turtles were part of the 2015 Woods Hole Science Stroll.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Shelley Dawicki.
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A viperfish, one of the 'oddities' found in an Ecosystem Monitoring Cruse tow.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dan Vendettuoli.
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A lesser black-backed gull in flight over the ocean.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Mike Force.
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NOAA Twin Otter's shadow appears on the ocean surface next to an entangled humpback whale during a survey flight.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Leah Crowe taken under MMPA research permit #17355.
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NEFSC's Russ Brown reads from Dr. Suess's <em>McElligot's Pool</em> during discussion with PEP students.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Shelley Dawicki.
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Scallops swimming cast shadows over a sea star, an adult scallop, and a fourspot flounder.
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/NEFSC HabCam.
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