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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Interactive
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Interactive

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Woods Hole researchers sample oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico
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Woods Hole Scientists Respond to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

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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.
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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

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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

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?

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spewing oil from broken well
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Science in a Time of Crisis: How Much Oil?

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Wreck Detectives

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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Building a Better Dispersant

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Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health

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A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

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A shrimp boat fishes in the Gulf of Mexico
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Live Stream Event: Dispatches From the Gulf

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