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What the Big Picture Can Teach Us About Tiny Ocean Creatures

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Bob the Drifter

This video, produced by Waterlust, shows how the Consortium for Advanced Research...

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Wave Tank At SL Ross

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Testing Impacts of Dispersants

Graduate students Danielle Young from Temple University and Dannise Ruiz from Penn...

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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will...

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Following the Dye by Drone

This small drone helped scientists follow a trail of pink dye tracking water...

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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to...

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Robotic Glider Evades Fishing Nets

This illustration shows how Scarlet Knight, the first unmanned, underwater robot or...

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Robotic Glider and Barnacles

Scientists met the robotic glider Scarlet Knight about halfway along its journey of...

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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...

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Diving can be a wild ride that evokes more than a little trepidation, especially in...

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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...