April 18, 2014 – Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

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Researchers with the DROPPS consortium are conducting experiments using high-speed imagery that capture the effects of dispersants on interfacial phenomena as shown in this image of a rain drop as it falls into a surface oil slick treated with chemical dispersant. (Image provided by Director of DROPPS Edward Buskey, University of Texas Marine Science Institute and credit to David Murphy, Johns Hopkins University)

GoMRI Advances Science Four Years after Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Since August 2011, eight research consortia funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) have been working hard to understand impacts from and responses to the Deepwater Horizon incident.