The U.S. Postal Service has released 16 new National Marine Sanctuaries Forever stamps. These stamps celebrate the 50th anniversary of NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary System, which protects a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 620,000 sq. mi. of marine and Great Lakes waters.
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The U.S. Postal Service will honor ichthyologist and oceanographer Eugenie Clark (1922 to 2015) with a Forever stamp.
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A new series of U.S. Postal Service stamps features photographs of bioluminescent deep sea creatures taken by Edith Widder, founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA). The images include a crown jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei), bamboo coral (Keratoisis Flexibilis), a marine worm (Flota), a deep sea comb jelly (Bathocyro fosteri), a midwater jelly fish (Atolla Vanhoeffeni) and a deep
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