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Drifters, Dye, and Drones: How can you follow 3.19 million barrels of spilled oil? Researchers with GoMRI's CARTHE project have set out drifters—big and small—that relay their GPS locations every five minutes. These data can help scientists understand
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Drifters, Dye, and Drones

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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

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A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
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A Rain Drop On An Oil Slick

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A emperor penguin chick sits under its mother's legs.
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Emperor Penguin Chick with Mother

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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

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Illustration of colorful nudibranchs from Ernst Haeckel.
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Nudibranchs

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Cover of 2018 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card
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Healthy Reefs Initiative Report Card

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A table of hurricane categories
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Hurricane Categories Table

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A map shows flood depth after Hurricane Katrina.
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Katrina Flood Depth

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A prediction of where Irma was going to hit
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Hurricane Irma's Path

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Portrait of Ángeles Alvariño
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Ángeles Alvariño

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A variety of plankton images from the Gulf Stream
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Gulf Stream Plankton

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