Scientists with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) have been investigating solvent-free formulations to improve the safety and efficiency of dispersant technologies used in oil spill response. One promising area involves halloysite clay nanotubes.
Students’ engagement with science that connects with something that is relevant in their lives can increase the meaningfulness of science application and help solidify its importance.
Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident moved from deep waters to coastal shorelines, overwhelming their natural defenses which, in turn, slowed or prevented their recovery. Scientists with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) have been assessing the health of these complex environments that experience stressors from multiple sources, providing information that can inform response decisions during future disturbances.
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident and the chemical dispersants applied during response efforts affected many ecologically and economically important fish species in the Gulf of Mexico.
Large environmental disasters can have a wide range of impacts on communities in affected areas, yet we have a limited understanding about how disasters affect public health.
Farewell 2020 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – JULY 15, 2020 (From Farewell 2020 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff Over three years ago, in April of 2017, a small group of GoMRI Research Board members got together to begin considering how to synthesize all we have learned during GoMRI. Utilizing the five GoMRI Research Themes as…
Farewell 2020 – GoMRI Scholars Interview – JULY 15, 2020 (From Farewell 2020 Newsletter) At the GoMRI Synthesis Symposium in February, several GoMRI Scholars took part in a panel focused on the future, representing all of the students who have served as essential team members for GoMRI research and have brought curiosity and energy to…
Farewell 2020 – Note from the Research Board Chair – JULY 15, 2020 (From Fall 2019 Newsletter) Dr. Rita Colwell, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Nearly 10 years ago, I received a phone call from Dr. Ellen Williams, then chief scientist at BP, who informed me of a research program being launched that…
Farewell 2020 – Education Spotlight – JULY 15, 2020 (From Farewell 2020 Newsletter) The Consortium for Simulation of Oil-Microbial Interactions in the Ocean (CSOMIO) created a middle school science curriculum called “Modeling the Gulf” to help students make connections between the theoretical nature of science and real-world applications. The curriculum includes five lessons plans related…
Capping Off the Decade of GoMRI – JULY 15, 2020 (From Farewell 2020 Newsletter) Ten years ago, July 15, 2010, the well below the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig was capped after discharging gas and light sweet crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was…