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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime
Slice through the trunk of a tree and you reveal a pattern of rings that grow out...
December 2019
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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion
From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...
February 2019
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...
December 2018
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Fish Heart Out of Water
Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...
June 2018
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#GulfSpillFlashback: Giving the Gulf Oil Spill the Consideration It Deserves
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico,...
April 2015
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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean
Glider Technology Now Used to Study Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico The first...
October 2010
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales
When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
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The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
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How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill
In August 1994, Mandy Joye dove to the deep sea in a submersible for the first...
January 2015
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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?
Lately we’ve been fielding questions from Smithsonian visitors wondering how they...
June 2010
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State of Emergency in the Gulf
The explosion of Deepwater Horizon, an oil-drilling platform roughly 50 miles off...
April 2010