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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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A pair of French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) swim off the coast of Brazil.
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Pair of Angelfish

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Biofilm (microbial life that clings to underwater painted surfaces and is generally found covering the bottom of ships) is collected from the hull of a cargo ship with a funnel and syringe.
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Sampling Biofilm

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Laurie takes a break collecting invasive species to snap a "selfie" while under the hull of a cargo ship.
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Laurie Underwater Selfie

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Large organisms, like these tunicates, live inside the recesses of a ship's hull while microscopic organisms form a film across all the painted surfaces on the boat.
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Tunicates On Hull of Boat

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An isopod retrieved from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (or ARMS) off the coast of Florida.
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Isopod From Florida ARMS

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A plate from an Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) placed in waters off of Florida.
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ARMS Plate From Florida

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A heavily oiled Kemp's Ridley turtle recovered near the Deepwater Horizon/BP accident site.
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Oiled Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle

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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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These cells are from a pygmy sperm whale in a laboratory culture dish. The red dyed cell are forming into fat cells after exposure to endocrine disruptors.
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Cells Get Fat

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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

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Blue Crab walking in wet sand.
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Blue Crab On The Gulf Coast

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