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Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry...

Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim

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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the...

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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

We often assume that an oil spill means instant death or long-term harm to all...

Follow the Fingerprint: There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil seeps, small spills from ships, and oil from roads that washes into the sea—not to mention big oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. How do GoMRI res

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Layers of Weathered Oil

There are many sources of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, including natural deep-sea oil...

An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.

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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

The “Dirty Blizzard of 2010” wasn’t a Nor’Easter. Instead, it was a...

A Tiny Fish Tells A Big Story: Some fish only spend a part of the year in the Gulf of Mexico, but some, like the Gulf killifish, live there year-round. In addition, these estuary fish are small and abundant, making them an excellent study species for scien

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Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

Some fish only spend a part of the year in the Gulf of Mexico, but some, like the...

Marsh Erosion Sped Up: One of the worst places for oil to end up after a spill is in marshes, where it can kill grass and cause erosion. But how much damage does it do, how far inland does it reach, and how long does the damage last? Pictured here is oiled

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Marsh Erosion After An Oil Spill

One of the worst places for oil to end up after a spill is in marshes, where it can...

Dispersant in the Deep: Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have been used with success to remove oil after a spill on the ocean's surface. But Deepwater Horizon wasn't a surface spill; instead, oil spewed into th

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Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

Dispersants, soap-like chemicals that cause oil to mix with water more easily, have...

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

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A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

Some of the biggest questions about oil spills center around tiny droplets: drops...

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Layers of Weathered Oil

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Marsh Erosion After An Oil Spill

Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

Killifish in the Gulf of Mexico

Marsh Erosion After An Oil Spill

Oil Spewing From Macondo Well

A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

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