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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

January 2016

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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

March 2015

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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

December 2014

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