Inboxes List

Create an inbox to save and track emails. It's free!

+New inbox
Back
Back
Back 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0" name="viewport"/>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
  <style type="text/css">
   ReadMsgBody{ width: 100%;}
      .ExternalClass {width: 100%;}
      .ExternalClass, .ExternalClass p, .ExternalClass span, .ExternalClass font, .ExternalClass td, .ExternalClass div {line-height: 100%;}
      body {-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%;margin:0 !important;}
      p { margin: 1em 0;}
      table td { border-collapse: collapse;}
      img {outline:0;}
      a img {border:none;}
      @-ms-viewport{ width: device-width;}
  </style>
  <style type="text/css">
   @media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {
        .container {width: 100% !important;}
        .footer { width:auto !important; margin-left:0; }
        .mobile-hidden { display:none !important; }
        .logo { display:block !important; padding:0 !important; }
        img { max-width:100% !important; height:auto !important; max-height:auto !important;}
        .header img{max-width:100% !important;height:auto !important; max-height:auto !important;}
        .photo img { width:100% !important; max-width:100% !important; height:auto !important;}
        .drop { display:block !important; width: 100% !important; float:left; clear:both;}
        .footerlogo { display:block !important; width: 100% !important; padding-top:15px; float:left; clear:both;}
        .nav4, .nav5, .nav6 { display: none !important; }
        .tableBlock {width:100% !important;}
        .responsive-td {width:100% !important; display:block !important; padding:0 !important; }
        .fluid, .fluid-centered {
          width: 100% !important;
          max-width: 100% !important;
          height: auto !important;
          margin-left: auto !important;
          margin-right: auto !important;
        }
        .fluid-centered {
          margin-left: auto !important;
          margin-right: auto !important;
        }
        /* MOBILE GLOBAL STYLES - DO NOT CHANGE */
body, .tb_properties{font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; color: #333333 !important; line-height: 1.5 !important; padding: 0px !important; }.buttonstyles{font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; padding: 10px !important; }h1{font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 22px !important; color: #333333 !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; }h2{font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 18px !important; color: #5D5D5D !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; }h3{font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 18px !important; color: #333333 !important; line-height: 1.15 !important; }a:not(.buttonstyles){line-height: 1.15 !important; }.mobile-hidden{display: none !important; }.responsive-td {width: 100% !important; display: block !important; padding: 0 !important;}
/* END OF MOBILE GLOBAL STYLES - DO NOT CHANGE */
      }
      @media only screen and (max-width: 640px) {
        .container { width:100% !important; }
        .mobile-hidden { display:none !important; }
        .logo { display:block !important; padding:0 !important; }
        .photo img { width:100% !important; height:auto !important;}
        .nav5, .nav6 { display: none !important;}
        .fluid, .fluid-centered {
          width: 100% !important;
          max-width: 100% !important;
          height: auto !important;
          margin-left: auto !important;
          margin-right: auto !important;
        }
        .fluid-centered {
          margin-left: auto !important;
          margin-right: auto !important;
        }
      }
  </style>
  <!--[if mso]>       <style type="text/css">           /* Begin Outlook Font Fix */               body, table, td {                  font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;                  line-height : 150%;                  font-size : 16px;                  color : #333333;               }           /* End Outlook Font Fix */       </style>     <![endif]-->
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="margin: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none;background-color : #FFFFFF; font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height : 150%; font-size : 16px; color : #333333; padding : 5px; " text="#808080">
  <style type="text/css">
   div.preheader 
{ display: none !important; }
  </style>
  <div class="preheader" style="font-size: 1px; display: none !important;">
   Today, we explore the abyss, the deepest (and cutest) squid in the ocean and how some deep sea creatures reach giant status.
  </div>
  <div style="font-size:0; line-height:0;">
   <img alt="" height="1" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fclick.nl.npr.org%252Fopen.aspx%253Fffcb10-fe5f1570776c017e7c10-fdf610767561067b74127573-fe8e12747761037574-feef1274736d03-fe201374706501747c1774-ff2e10787165%2526d%253D60248%2526bmt%253D0/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZjbGljay5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkxMjk1fQ:1v8b37:NuxEyRRycWEBQSAymaMb3bHHz_U1lXUZytX89XlUzMk" width="1"/>
  </div>
  <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
   <tr>
    <td align="center" valign="top">
    </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td align="center">
     <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="container" width="600">
      <tr>
       <td style="text-align:right;padding-bottom:5px;">
        <a style="color:#666666;font-size:0.9rem;" target="_blank">
         View this email online
        </a>
       </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
       <td>
        <!-- added the border style here -->
        <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tb_properties border_style" style="font-size : 16px; font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color : #333333;background-color : #FFFFFF; border : 0px; line-height : 100%; " width="100%">
         <!-- end of comment -->
         <tr>
          <td align="center" valign="top">
           <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
            <tr>
             <td>
              <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="background-color: #FFFFFF; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
               <tr>
                <td class="slot-styling camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: #FFFFFF; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                  <tr>
                   <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td align="center">
                       <a data-linkto="https://" title="">
                        <img alt="Stress Less — A quest to reclaim your calm." data-assetid="329412" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252Fc91d0df8-b16f-4fed-84cb-8b6c9c43232f.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkxOTU1NX0:1v8b37:KJyr43h7cGEWXtBJ5jC7M3tvPzKJRO7nYhlun-UpVvk" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="600"/>
                       </a>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                   </td>
                  </tr>
                 </table>
                </td>
               </tr>
              </table>
             </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
             <!-- added padding here -->
             <td class="content_padding" style="border:0px;padding : 10px 20px; ">
              <!-- end of comment -->
              <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
               <tr>
                <td align="left" class="header" valign="top">
                 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                  <tr>
                   <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 5px 0px 0px; ">
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="slot-styling camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 0px 0px 15px; ">
                          <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                           <tr>
                            <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                             <div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: right;">
                              <meta charset="utf-8"/>
                              <i>
                               Email
                               <b>
                                4 of 5
                               </b>
                              </i>
                             </div>
                             <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;">
                              <br/>
                              <i>
                               Each installment of our five-part newsletter will explore one of the five vertical zones of the ocean, what lives in each and why that zone matters to humans. Today, we explore the abyss, the deepest (and cutest) squid in the ocean and how some deep sea creatures reach giant status.
                              </i>
                             </div>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                          <hr color="#efefef" style="margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:30px; height:1px;"/>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 0px 0px 15px; ">
                          <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                           <tr>
                            <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                             <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                              <font color="#2a7079">
                               <span style="font-size:22px">
                                <b>
                                 Welcome to the abyss!
                                </b>
                               </span>
                              </font>
                              <br/>
                              <br/>
                              The deep. The expanse. The void. The abyssopelagic zone may sound like a place devoid of life, but NOAA marine biologist
                              <a data-linkto="https://" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="Noelle Bowlin">
                               Noelle Bowlin
                              </a>
                              says even here, 4,000-6,000 meters below the surface, “There are creatures that make their living in the abyss. But you don't get high densities of them.”
                              <br/>
                              <br/>
                              The critters that survive here are limited not only by the absence of sunlight and near freezing temperatures, but also the crushing pressures, which range between 400-600 atm. To put that into perspective, the pressure at the ocean’s surface is 1 atm, an average car tire is 2-3 atm and inside a champagne bottle is around 6 atm.
                              <br/>
                              <br/>
                              Noelle says the creatures in the abyss are gelatinous and often have translucent or dark skin to avoid being detected by the only light present: bioluminescence.
                              <br/>
                              <br/>
                              Another interesting adaptation deep sea creatures have? Tiny eyes. “You're not going to see a lot of animals that invest, if you will, in growing large eyes. They're going to use their energy to … invest in their other senses,” Noelle says.
                              <br/>
                              <br/>
                              Keep reading for more ways sea animal body size changes with depth…
                             </div>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                   </td>
                  </tr>
                 </table>
                </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                <td align="left" class="" valign="top">
                 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="border: 0px; background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                  <tr>
                   <td class="slot-styling camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;">
                           <tr>
                            <td>
                             <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%;">
                              <tr>
                               <td class="responsive-td" style="width: 50%; padding-right: 7.5px;" valign="top">
                                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                                 <tr>
                                  <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                                   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                                    <tr>
                                     <td align="center">
                                      <img alt="" data-assetid="329942" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252Ff69184b7-efe3-4da2-9936-b533cbccea31.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyMDc4NX0:1v8b37:tpAePfsQgjsrxTwpgP4t0jxuN1J241eHNYH2QP_u0-c" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="300"/>
                                     </td>
                                    </tr>
                                   </table>
                                  </td>
                                 </tr>
                                </table>
                               </td>
                               <td class="responsive-td" style="width: 50%; padding-left: 7.5px;" valign="top">
                                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                                 <tr>
                                  <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                                   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                                    <tr>
                                     <td align="center">
                                      <img alt="" data-assetid="329953" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252F4a2955d1-ba57-44a9-a2c9-f7449e36e77e.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyMjE3fQ:1v8b37:5z4CfqOH7l_Nt2cvkZf5aSt2Vo0l9F14eGgObBnVxTw" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="300"/>
                                     </td>
                                    </tr>
                                   </table>
                                  </td>
                                 </tr>
                                </table>
                               </td>
                              </tr>
                             </table>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 10px 0px 0px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          To see the full comic, including the other ocean zones,
                          <b>
                           <a data-linkto="//" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="click HERE.">
                            click HERE.
                           </a>
                          </b>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                   </td>
                  </tr>
                 </table>
                </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                <td align="left" class="" valign="top">
                 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                  <tr>
                   <td class="slot-styling camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <b>
                           <span style="color:#2A7079;">
                            <span style="font-size:22px;">
                             Dive into the research
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </b>
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           <br/>
                           Marine biologist Craig McClain is fascinated with animal sizes, both the very big – “If you go to my Instagram page, I use a hashtag called Craig with big things” – and the itty bitty – “I have lots and lots of snails, and they get very, very tiny.” He says the size of an animal can tell scientists a lot about what that critter can do, “The most fundamental trait of an organism is how big or small it is.”
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td align="center">
                          <img alt="" data-assetid="330444" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252F21c38bc4-58ad-4aaa-8228-fd15df8d0469.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyMzV9:1v8b37:97wBDCa5KqQzljGcYub9CK_bVtoahbeJ0OoCdqJkTsw" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="600"/>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <span style="color:#7f8c8d;">
                           <i>
                            Researcher Craig McClain holds a giant isopod.
                           </i>
                          </span>
                          <div style="text-align: right;">
                           <span style="color:#7f8c8d;">
                            <span style="font-size:12px;">
                             <i>
                              Craig McClain
                             </i>
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           Knowing a creature’s size can tell researchers how fast it can move, how much energy it needs, how much it breathes and how much it urinates. It also gives them insight into how that animal might fare in scenarios like a predator-prey interaction, food competition and choosing a mate. All of these details can help determine an animal’s role in the ecosystem and it’s relatively easy to collect – unless that animal lives thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           That’s where many of the ocean’s giants live: in the twilight (200-1,000 meters) or midnight (1,000-4,000 meters) zones. “And everything after 4000 meters is super tiny,” which is the area this week’s newsletter is focused on: the abyssal, or abyssopelagic, zone. Early in his career, Craig wondered why organisms got so tiny beneath that 4000m mark. He hypothesized that food is too scarce at these depths for critters to get big–but he needed samples to be sure.
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           To collect deep sea samples, Craig uses a combination of underwater remote operated vehicles, human-operated submersibles, core sampling techniques and seabed net towing. “Most of that has been shipboard sampling,” which leaves him and the crew at the mercy of weather, technology and luck. He adds that crew dynamics, cramped spaces and a lack of exercise can make collection trips challenging. There’s one upside (or downside, depending on how you look at it): “Most research vessels in the U.S. are equipped with an ice cream freezer, where it's just full of like the whole ice cream aisle [at] the grocery.”
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           Still, Craig says a lot of his time is actually spent in the lab or in front of a computer. For example, one project required him to “take thousands of images of tiny snails, all in a microscope all summer long.”
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           He was surprised to find the deeper, abyssal zone snails weren’t always smaller than their shallower counterparts. “What we actually see is that there's this convergence,” Craig says. Some snail species did get smaller with depth, but others got larger. And the explanation came back to food abundance. “If you are too small, you don't have starvation resistance, [but if] you're too big, you require too much food. So this kind of Goldilocks size works the best.”
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 10px 0px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                           <tr>
                            <td align="center">
                             <img alt="" data-assetid="329954" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252F4ffd8459-d4b1-4557-b0d0-bf96d36c1915.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyNDgzNn0:1v8b37:InkCIYFM1fBiNzdjpcJHnmbXOq1RXz7JIztkPhBKAI0" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="600"/>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div>
                           <span style="color:#7f8c8d;">
                            <i>
                             Here, three shallow-water snails are compared to three tiny deep-sea snails.
                            </i>
                           </span>
                          </div>
                          <div style="text-align: right;">
                           <span style="font-size:12px;">
                            <span style="color:#7f8c8d;">
                             <i>
                              Craig McClain
                             </i>
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           All of Craig’s work has reinforced the idea that body size is fundamental and essential information for other scientists to access. So, earlier this year Craig and a team of researchers launched a body size collection called The Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) Database. So far, they have size data for around 100,000 marine animals, around 40 percent of all described marine species. Craig says he hopes marine biologists will use this database in a myriad of ways. Already, a postdoc in his lab is investigating how species will respond to a warming climate, where higher temperatures are predicted to increase metabolism, and decrease oxygen and food availability, all of which point to shrinking body sizes in the future. But “this will be the first time that someone's actually quantified it.”
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           <i>
                            To hear more about the abyssal zone, listen to our Sea Camp episode.
                           </i>
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 0px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                           <tr>
                            <td align="center">
                             <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation">
                              <tr>
                               <td bgcolor="#2A7079" class="innertd buttonblock" style=" border-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; background-color: #2A7079;">
                                <a class="buttonstyles" data-linkto="https://" style=" font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; display: block; background-color: #2A7079; border: 1px solid #2A7079; padding: 15px 20px; border-radius: 4px; -moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px;" target="_blank" title="">
                                 Listen to the episode
                                </a>
                               </td>
                              </tr>
                             </table>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <b>
                           <span style="color:#2A7079;">
                            <span style="font-size:22px;">
                             Creature Feature: Dumbo Octopus
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </b>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td align="center">
                          <img alt="" data-assetid="330442" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252Fffd288b2-0392-4356-b090-d4eab264a5f3.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyNjA1Nn0:1v8b37:o6XIP3uskXZcd42yzmJxHADMPMN3dmkNuwbQshNkBrM" style="display: block; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="600"/>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td align="center">
                          <img alt="" data-assetid="330443" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252F8fc66c2c-7528-435f-8a78-9716ec760287.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyNzAwNX0:1v8b37:mruj4iWPU35K8JkHDvpS_-uysmITG1FJAqrzlmxh8Ig" style="display: block; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 100%; border: 0px;" width="600"/>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div>
                           <i style="color: rgb(127, 140, 141);">
                            Grimpoteuthis aka the Dumbo Octopus
                           </i>
                          </div>
                          <div style="text-align: right;">
                           <span style="font-size:12px;">
                            <span style="color:#7f8c8d;">
                             <i>
                              Danté Fenolio/
                              <a data-linkto="//" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="DEEPEND-RESTORE">
                               DEEPEND-RESTORE
                              </a>
                             </i>
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           Through extensive fact checking, the
                           <i>
                            Short Wave
                           </i>
                           team has found dumbo octopuses are objectively one of the cutest critters in the ocean. Disagree? Send us your cuter critter picks!
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           Fun facts about this cutie:
                          </div>
                          <ul>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            They get their name from the Disney movie “Dumbo” because the creature’s fins resemble the character Dumbo’s flying ears.
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            They’re the deepest dwelling octopus scientists know of.
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            They’ve been found in the midnight, abyssal and hadal zones.
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            Scientists think the females might carry eggs at different stages of development, so if they encounter a male they don’t miss an opportunity to mate.
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            Along with suckers, each arm has tiny hairs that help create water currents for easier feeding.
                           </li>
                          </ul>
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           <b>
                            To see more deep sea creatures, check out
                            <a data-linkto="https://" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="the gallery from the DEEPEND-RETORE project.">
                             the gallery from the DEEPEND-RESTORE project.
                            </a>
                           </b>
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <b>
                           <span style="color:#2A7079;">
                            <span style="font-size:22px;">
                             Game Time
                            </span>
                           </span>
                          </b>
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           <br/>
                           Can you guess the word or phrase hinted at by these ocean-themed pictures?
                           <a alias="Email us" conversion="false" data-linkto="mailto:" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="Email us">
                            Email us
                           </a>
                           your guesses – just for fun – at
                           <a alias="shortwave@npr.org" conversion="false" data-linkto="mailto:" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="shortwave@npr.org">
                            shortwave@npr.org
                           </a>
                           ! The answers will be in next week’s newsletter.
                          </div>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td align="center">
                          <img alt="" data-assetid="330446" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fimage.nl.npr.org%252Flib%252Ffe8e12747761037574%252Fm%252F1%252Fb5606879-fa1d-41a2-abd2-0e58927a39bd.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZpbWFnZS5ubC5ucCIsInRpbWUiOjE3NjA0MzMwMjkuNzkyNzkzNX0:1v8b37:WUMjM8hGpKYqVH5PSkBWszTeXtcPnGA_puKePQSVr1c" style="display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; border: 0px solid transparent; height: auto; width: 100%;" width="600"/>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 20px 0px 10px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="padding: 0px; ">
                          <div style="line-height: 150%;">
                           You can also
                           <a alias="email us" conversion="false" data-linkto="mailto:" style="color:#2A7079;text-decoration:underline;" title="email us">
                            email us
                           </a>
                           your sea-themed puzzle idea and we may feature it in a future newsletter!
                           <br/>
                           <br/>
                           <i>
                            Solutions to last week’s puzzles:
                           </i>
                          </div>
                          <ul>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            <i>
                             Clam
                            </i>
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            <i>
                             Seahorse
                            </i>
                           </li>
                           <li style="line-height: 150%;">
                            <i>
                             Dogfish shark
                            </i>
                           </li>
                          </ul>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                       <hr color="#efefef" style="margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:30px; height:1px;"/>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                   </td>
                  </tr>
                 </table>
                </td>
               </tr>
               <tr>
                <td align="left" class="" valign="top">
                 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                  <tr>
                   <td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="padding: 10px 0px; ">
                    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="slot-styling" role="presentation" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                     <tr>
                      <td class="slot-styling camarker-inner" style="padding: 10px 0px; ">
                       <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" role="presentation" style="min-width: 100%; " width="100%">
                        <tr>
                         <td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner">
                          <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                           <tr>
                            <td align="center" valign="top" width="100%">
                             <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="container" width="600">
                              <tr>
                               <td align="center" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #959595; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.5;">
                                <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                                 <tr>
                                  <td align="center" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #959595; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.5;">
                                   This email was sent by:
                                   <b>
                                    National Public Radio
                                   </b>
                                   <br/>
                                   1111 North Capitol Street NE Washington, DC, 20002, US
                                   <br/>
                                  </td>
                                 </tr>
                                </table>
                                <p>
                                 If you have any questions, please
                                 <a data-linkto="https://" style="color:#3030CE;text-decoration:none;" title="Footer: Help Desk">
                                  submit a help ticket here
                                 </a>
                                 .
                                </p>
                                <strong>
                                 <a data-linkto="//" style="color:#5d5d5d;text-decoration:underline;" title="Unsubcribe from Series">
                                  Unsubscribe
                                 </a>
                                 |
                                 <a style="color: #5d5d5d; text-decoration: underline;" title="">
                                  Update Preferences
                                 </a>
                                 |
                                 <a style="color: #5d5d5d; text-decoration: underline; line-height: 6px;" title="NPR Privacy Policy">
                                  Privacy Policy
                                 </a>
                                </strong>
                                <br/>
                               </td>
                              </tr>
                             </table>
                            </td>
                           </tr>
                          </table>
                         </td>
                        </tr>
                       </table>
                      </td>
                     </tr>
                    </table>
                   </td>
                  </tr>
                 </table>
                </td>
               </tr>
              </table>
             </td>
            </tr>
           </table>
          </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
          <td style="text-align:center;">
           <div>
           </div>
          </td>
         </tr>
        </table>
       </td>
      </tr>
     </table>
    </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td valign="top">
    </td>
   </tr>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>