Bright Lights in the Blue

In brilliant color, a peacock grouper (Cephalopholus argus) swims among corals in the Farasan Banks in the Red Sea in 2009. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold and international colleagues were there to conduct an ecological survey of corals and coral reef fishes, as part of a cooperative research program with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).(Photo by Simon Thorrold, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)