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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...

paleobiology field equipment for excavating a fossil whale in central america

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Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

Paleobiologist Dr. Nicholas Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals for the...

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Hedbergella sliteri

Hedbergella sliteri - this specific specimen is the "holotype" for this species....

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Gulf Coast oil spill

Satellite view of the Gulf Coast oil spill off of Louisiana, April 29, 2010. ...

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Hedbergella sliteri

Gulf Coast oil spill

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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

Equipment for a Fossil Excavation

Hedbergella sliteri

Gulf Coast oil spill

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