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(6.21.11 - Three new header images have been added. Descriptions of the new images will be posted here soon.)
Bottlenose dolphins following a boat in the Mississippi Sound. Their bellies turn pink when they're socializing. Photo by Tanner Reid.
Gulf Sturgeon captured, tagged, and released in the Pascagoula River by graduate students working with Dr. Mark Peterson. Left to right: Jeane-Marie Havrylkoff, Jeremy Copley, Paul Mickle, John Lopez. Photo by Dr. Todd Slack.
Storm clouds in the Gulf of Mexico taken aboard the R/V Tommy Munro
on one of the
Summer Field Program's overnight expeditions, June 2010. Photo by Tanner Reid.
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Ghost Crab, a common inhabitant of the shores of the Mississippi Barrier Islands, alongside
a strand of dried sargassum. Photo by Chris Snyder.
Speckled trout fingerlings raised at GCRL are released into Davis Bayou in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Photo by Susan Carranza.
Brown Pelican in breeding plumage patrols a coastal marsh. Photo by Chris Snyder.
Alligator at the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Photo by Chris Snyder.
GCRL's R/V Tom McIlwain lies at anchor while Dr. James Wetzel’s SFP Marine Biology class collects specimens at Horn Island, off the coast of Mississippi. Photo by Chris Snyder.