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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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Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.

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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

June 2010

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