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the foamy surface of the ocean
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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
A screenshot from video of a school of fish swimming.
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Bob the Drifter

This video, produced by Waterlust, shows how the Consortium for Advanced Research...
Fri, 02/07/2014 - 15:35
A raindrop falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant.
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After the Oil Spill: Research Projects in the Gulf of Mexico with GoMRI

The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed as a 10-year independent...
Fri, 01/23/2015 - 13:11
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.

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
A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
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.

Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

You’ve probably heard of genetics—you can now swab your mouth and use DNA to...
January 2016
Alexis Temkin stands in marsh grass holding a reptile.
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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
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.

Building a Better Dispersant

When oil spills in the ocean, slicks are the center of media attention because they...
January 2015
With their brown and yellow markings, seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus) blend in well with marshgrass.

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
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