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Article
The Oil Spill, Two Years Later
Two years ago last week, on April 20, 2010, an explosion on the oil-drilling rig...
April 2012
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
Lesson Plan
Modeling the Gulf of Mexico
This middle school science curriculum contains five lesson plans related to ocean...
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 13:57
Lesson Plan
The Great Plankton Race
Students use a variety of materials to construct various models of plankton to gain...
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 10:30
Personal Perspectives
How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea
There can be catastrophic results when a large amount of oil is spilled into the...
November 2014
Article
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
slideshow
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
Article
Breaking Down the Myths and Misconceptions About the Gulf Oil Spill
In the months and years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...
April 2014
Article
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
Article
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
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