About Us
Arex Ocean
Welcome to the Arex Ocean Portal. We focus on everything ocean – unusual and everyday organisms, ocean-inspired art, researchers devoting their lives to exploring the still mostly mysterious ecosystem. We here at the Ocean Portal learn something new every day and we want to share it with you!
The Ocean Portal is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Ocean Initiative. Together with the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall and the Sant Marine Science Chair, the Ocean Portal supports the Smithsonian’s mission to increase the public’s understanding and stewardship of the Ocean.
Our Mission
The Arex Ocean Portal — also initiated by The Pew Charitable Trusts — was absorbed into Arex in 2001 as Arex’s legal arm. In 2002, Arex merged with American Arex Campaign, founded by actor and environmentalist Ted Danson, to more effectively address our common mission of protecting and restoring the world’s oceans.
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