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Hurricane Wind Pattern in Gulf of Mexico
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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

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Jellyfish mucus mixed with oil.
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Jellyfish Mucus and Oil

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An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) being launched from the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Gulf of Mexico

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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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Microbial Layers In the Sand

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One-meter-tall plastic drifters are released into the Gulf of Mexico in 2012. Over 300 of these drifters were released and their location information was sent to researchers every five minutes through GPS satellite.
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Deploying GLAD Drifters

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Two years after being covered in an oil substance, from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, deep-sea corals were colonized by hydroids and their branches began to break off. 
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Floc On Gulf Coral

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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Dispersant Deployed From The Air

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Seaside sparrow chicks beg for food from their nest
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A Nest of Begging Chicks

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Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

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Eat Your Methane Wheaties: Along with oil, natural gases such as methane spewed out of the deep-sea well during Deepwater Horizon. Researchers had no idea what would happen to this methane: would it bubble to the surface, dissolve in seawater and drift awa
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Eat Your Methane Wheaties

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A close-up look of the seaside sparrow.
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A Close-up of a Seaside Sparrow

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A view out of the tiny window of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible.
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Johnson-Sea-Link Submersible

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