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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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A green mahi-mahi fish underwater
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Fish Heart Out of Water

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This map shows the localities represented by the Gulf of Mexico collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Map of Gulf of Mexico Collection

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An underwater blizzard of oil, marine microbes, "sea snot", and algae.
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A Dirty Blizzard In the Gulf of Mexico

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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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Bubble of Oil On The Seafloor

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Students share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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Students Study Plankton

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a veterinarian listens to a dolphin's heartbeat
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The Musical Hearts of Dolphins

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Sparrows Send a Message: Seabirds, like the often-photographed pelican, can be hurt when oil soaks their feathers during an oil spill. But what about birds that live on land? A group of GoMRI researchers are studying seaside sparrows, birds that live in ma
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Sparrows Send A Message

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A brown-colored deep-sea coral sits on the deep ocean floor and is covered with brown oil floc.
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Anemone On Deep Sea Coral

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animation of scan of ocean floor
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Searching for the Plume

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Hydrothermal Vent Food Web

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