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The Bone that Logs a Lifetime
Slice through the trunk of a tree and you reveal a pattern of rings that grow out...
December 2019
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Five Methods for Tracking the Ocean's Motion
From the time of Aristotle until the European Renaissance, a roughly 1,000-year...
February 2019
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How to Survive an Oil Spill: Oyster Edition
Oysters are powerhouses of water filtration. In a single day, one oyster can filter...
December 2018
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Fish Heart Out of Water
Under the lens of a microscope—in a shallow, glass well—spindly orbs pulse at...
June 2018
Personal Perspectives
Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill
You are not alone if you don’t know what forams (short for foraminifera) are, so...
June 2014
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Five Things The Gulf Oil Spill Has Taught Us About the Ocean
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest...
April 2015
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions with Uta Passow, How An Oil Spill Affects the Movement of Carbon In the Ocean
There are millions of tiny drifting plants in the sunlit ocean, called...
March 2015
Personal Perspectives
Five Questions With Alexis Temkin, Searching For Links Between Deepwater Horizon & Human Health
We all know to avoid touching or eating oil (the fossil fuel variety that is)....
March 2015
Building a Better Dispersant
When oil spills in the ocean, slicks are the center of media attention because they...
January 2015
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How Methane Fueled a Food Web after the Gulf Oil Spill
In August 1994, Mandy Joye dove to the deep sea in a submersible for the first...
January 2015
Beyond the Sea: How Oil Spills in the Ocean Affect Birds On Land
In marshlands along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, it's easy to hear the sharp,...
December 2014
CARTHE Drifters: Where does oil go when it is spilled?
Throw a message in a bottle into the vast ocean and where does it go? The answer to...
February 2014