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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms

Lopping off one’s arm sounds like a harrowing experience, but for one deep-sea...

August 2019

Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry...

Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim

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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the...

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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

We often assume that an oil spill means instant death or long-term harm to all...

Follow the Fingerprint: There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil seeps, small spills from ships, and oil from roads that washes into the sea—not to mention big oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. How do GoMRI res

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Layers of Weathered Oil

There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil...

An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.

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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

The “Dirty Blizzard of 2010” wasn’t a Nor’Easter. Instead, it was a...

A Tiny Fish Tells A Big Story: Some fish only spend a part of the year in the Gulf of Mexico, but some, like the Gulf killifish, live there year-round. In addition, these estuary fish are small and abundant, making them an excellent study species for scien

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Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

Some fish only spend a part of the year in the Gulf of Mexico, but some, like the...

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Hawaiian Lure

This octopus lure called a leho he`e is a tool of trickery. The octopus...

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Little Cuttlefish, Big Attitude

An oil drilling platform in oil-free water two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Bonny Schumaker, cofounder of the nonprofit On Wings of Care, flies over the Gulf...

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Technology and Sea Turtles

Sea turtles may have survived the planetary changes that killed the dinosaurs, but...

Using dynamite to stun or kill bigger fish to sell at market leaves behind many dead undesired fish as bycatch.

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Fishing with Dynamite

Blast fishing, when dynamite or other explosives are used to stun or kill fish, is...

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

Layers of Weathered Oil

A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

Hawaiian Lure

Little Cuttlefish, Big Attitude

Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Technology and Sea Turtles

Fishing with Dynamite

Smithsonian Ocean

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Meet the Only Squid that Willfully Lops off its Arms

Citizen Science With a Drift Card

Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

Layers of Weathered Oil

A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

Hawaiian Lure

Little Cuttlefish, Big Attitude

Oil Drilling Platform in the Gulf of Mexico

Technology and Sea Turtles

Fishing with Dynamite

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