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A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures
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Teaching Your Students About Marine Debris: a Classroom Activity

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
Lesson Plan

Modeling the Gulf of Mexico

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A group of students pick up trash along the coast of Guyana during the Ocean Conservancy's 2012 Coastal Cleanup.
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Picking Up Trash Along the Coast

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a thick multicolored oil sheen on the water inside a boat marina
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Oil on the Water

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A deep sea crab (Rochinia crassa) poses with sea fan (Callogorgia spp.) and coral (Lophelia pertusa) on large carbonate boulder.
Slideshow

Oil Invades Coral Communities of the Deep

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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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Ocean Trash Plaguing Our Sea

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A thin layer of oil on the water's surface, reflecting rainbow colors
Timeline

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Milestones

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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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With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.
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Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land

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A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
Slideshow

After the Oil Spill: Research Projects in the Gulf of Mexico with GoMRI

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corals of many colors in the deep sea
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Deep Gulf Restoration After a Monumental Oil Spill

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A school of mahi mahi.
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From Larvae to Adults – Finding Impacts of an Oil Spill on Mahi-Mahi

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