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A screenshot from video of a school of fish swimming.
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Bob the Drifter

This video, produced by Waterlust, shows how the Consortium for Advanced Research...
Fri, 02/07/2014 - 15:35
animation of scan of ocean floor
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Searching for the Plume

Part 4 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 15:28
a burning oil platform
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Sampling the Source

Part 3 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 14:27
spewing oil from broken well
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Science in a Time of Crisis: How Much Oil?

Part 2 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's (WHOI)...
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 14:18
A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
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After the Oil Spill: Research Projects in the Gulf of Mexico with GoMRI

The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed as a 10-year independent...
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 13:11
Intense volcanic CO2 vents in Ili Ili Bua Bua, Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea.
slideshow

Will Coral Reefs Survive Acidification?

Nestled among the beautiful coral reefs of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a place that...
Thu, 08/02/2012 - 15:34
Dive through the zones of the ocean to the deep ocean bottom where many strange species live, and there are many yet to be discovered. Explore them in the Deep Ocean Exploration section.
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What We DON'T Know About the Deep Sea

Imagine: You’re in a small submersible, and you gently settle on the soft muddy...
July 2012
A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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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
A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral

A Brittle Star May Be a Coral’s Best Friend

Five thousand feet (1,524 meters) beneath the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, an...
August 2017
A school of mahi mahi.

From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

For a month during the summer of 2016, Lela Schlenker spent several hours in the...
April 2017
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...
January 2016

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