BACKGROUND:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n| Recognized as one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on deep-sea exploration, Dr. Edith Widder, founder, CEO and senior scientist at ORCA, will share research findings about the fascinating world of bioluminescent life. Her photographs appear on seven stamp images.<\/p>\n Bioluminescence \u2014 the ability of some living things to generate their own light \u2014 occurs on many branches of the tree of life. This pane of 20 stamps showcases 10 examples of Bioluminescent Life.<\/p>\n At center top, the selvage \u2014 or area outside the stamps \u2014 features a transparent deep-sea comb jelly (Gregory G. Dimijian photo), surrounded by images of the firefly squid (Dant\u00e9 Fenolio). The title \u201cBIOLUMINESCENT LIFE\u201d appears on the selvage above the pane of stamps.<\/p>\n Eight stamp images represent the work of some of the top explorers of the bioluminescent ocean realm, and two portray land-based species. The stamps feature: deep-ocean octopus (Widder); midwater jellyfish (Widder); deep-sea comb jelly (Widder); mushroom (Taylor F. Lockwood); firefly (Gail Shumway); bamboo coral (Widder); marine worm (Widder); crown jellyfish (Widder); a second type of marine worm (Steve Haddock); and sea pen (Widder).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n
\nFor questions or concerns please contact USPS: 1-800-Ask-USPS or www.usps.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHAT: First-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the Bioluminescent Life Forever stamps. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at\u00a0usps.com\/bioluminescents.\u00a0Please share the news using the hashtag\u00a0#BioluminescentStamps.\u00a0 WHO: U.S. Postal Service Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice President\u00a0Jeffrey C. Williamson. Ocean Research and Conservation Association\u00a0(ORCA) CEO\/Senior Scientist\u00a0Dr. Edith Widder, whose photographs appear on seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22414,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions\/22414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | ![\"Bioluminescent](\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2018\/images\/pr18_009.jpg\")
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