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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Bay Drift: Tracking Ocean Pollution

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Self Contained Gulf Oil Spill Kit

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The robotic underwater glider Scarlet Knight crossed the Atlantic over the course of several months in 2009.
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Underwater Robots Explore the Ocean

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A tiny larval (baby) starfish.
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The Invisible Loss: The Impacts of Oil You Do Not See

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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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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Modeling the Gulf of Mexico

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An estimated 5 tons of plastic are fed to albatross chicks each year at Midway Atoll.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 4

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Jellyfish produce mucus, especially when stressed, which can interact with oil and break it down. This moon jellyfish is sloughing off mucus that has mixed with droplets of oil.
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How Jellyfish Break Down Oil After a Spill

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Pile of Plastic Trash
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Plastic Trash Looms

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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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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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.
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Marine Plastics

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