Snorkel Things 🤿
Ocean Features & Field Notes
By Marijke Puts
The stuff that didn’t fit into client commissions—because shockingly, not everyone has room for a thousand words on shrimp ecology.
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Commission a pieceOcean Features
The Little Blob That Could: The Sea Walnut & The Black Sea
In the 1980s, the Black Sea was overrun by non-native comb jellyfish in a storming that put even the most successful invasive species until that point to shame.
Marijke Puts
Light Pieces, Ocean Features
Blind Faith: The Reef’s BFFs are a Goby and a Gunslinging Shrimp
Life on the reef is no picnic. These underwater jungles give life to countless fish and invertebrates, but danger lurks in every nook and …
Marijke Puts
Ocean Features
The Sun Coral and the Oil Platform: How Tubastraea Conquered the World
On a coral that doesn’t need light to thrive, and how it conquered the seas half a world away from its place of origin—but not without a little help from Big Industry.
Marijke Puts