Laurie Penland

Laurie Penland

 

Smithsonian photographer and dive officer Laurie Penland shares her passion for the underwater realm, capturing images from the Amazon to the North Pole, and many places in between.

These comical looking mollusks are common to the Caribbean. Their eyes poke out on stalks from inside large, pink, beautiful shells, and they move along one “step” at a time, with a lift and a flop, leaving tracks behind in the sand.

An Elegant Tool Called Squidpop That Scientists Want to Crowdsource

The device is so easy to use, researchers are asking for a “squidpop blitz” for World Oceans Day

Bubbles from the divers' breathing aparatus collect on the belly of the ship.

What's So Important About the Bottom of a Cargo Ship? A Smithsonian Dive Team Explains

Smithsonian photographer Laurie Penland details the exhausting, but rewarding, work of scraping invasive species off the hull of a boat

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