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Kelp wrack, or dead kelp that washes up on beaches, provides important nutrients and habitat to the otherwise barren beach ecosystem.

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Giant kelp reaches towards the sky off of Santa Barbara. Kelp forests provide food, habitat, and protection to reef communities and are some of the most biodiverse marine environments on the planet.

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The Strom Lab taking over the wheelhouse on the R/V Sikuliaq.

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Ana and her lab team prepare to deploy a trace metal CTD on an unusually sunny day in the Northern Gulf of Alaska.

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Kelley, the award-winning “best pourer” of the NGA-LTER, filters a deck-board incubation experiment.

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Suzanne showcases how to best don a “one size fits all” survival suit.

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Middle school students collect data for their class’s phenology research study, “Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming” in the Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology Program.

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Community scientists converge at Loveland Pass on a cold June morning to learn pika surveying techniques. Credit: Angela Theodosopoulos, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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A pika looks out over the talus.