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Sea Grant Releases Report on Fostering Researcher-Responder Collaboration
Posted on June 11, 2020The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) is pleased to announce a new report that draws from five workshops hosted by the Sea Grant Oil Spill Outreach Team where emergency responders and oil spill science researchers from around the Gulf of Mexico gathered to learn from one another. -
How Grad Student Tang Observes Oil’s Big Impacts on Tiny Predators and Their Prey
Posted on June 2, 2020Marine protists are single-celled planktonic creatures that form the base of the marine food web and perform important ecosystem services, including driving photosynthesis and the carbon and nitrogen cycles. -
![National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Upcoming Webinar Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current June 2, […]](https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/job_pic-125x125.jpg "Opportunity: Upcoming Webinar – Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current")
Opportunity: Upcoming Webinar – Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current
Posted on May 29, 2020National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Upcoming Webinar Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current June 2, […] -
Science That Makes Us Better Prepared for the Next Spill: Ocean Flows and Oil Transport
Posted on May 28, 2020Here are highlights from selected GoMRI-funded peer-reviewed publications related to advancements in knowledge about physical ocean processes that affect how an oil spill moves. -
Grad Student Dandekar Examines How Ocean Layers Affect Microbial Motion Towards Oil
Posted on May 19, 2020Hydrocarbon-degrading microbes living in ocean environments consumed and metabolized oil droplets following Deepwater Horizon, which significantly influenced the oil’s fate in the Gulf of Mexico. -
Grad Student Jacketti Enhances Modeling Capability to Track Sunken Oil
Posted on May 12, 2020Oil spilled in the ocean can sink to the seafloor due to its high density or by attaching to floating particulate matter, as happened during the Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation and Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA) event following Deepwater Horizon. -
Opportunity: General Engineer, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Oil Spill Preparedness Division
Posted on May 6, 2020The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Oil Spill Preparedness Division (OSPD) is currently accepting applications for the position of General Engineer. Open & closing […] -
New Report! Deepwater Horizon Discoveries of How Microbes Mitigate Oil Spills
Posted on May 6, 2020Technical advances in genomics since Deepwater Horizon have revealed the natural capacity of microbes to catalyze bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons. -
A Decade of Research Reveals Significance of Sunlight’s Effects on Floating Oil
Posted on May 5, 2020April 2020 marks ten years since the tragic Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico. It also marks a decade of oil spill research that followed funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiate (GoMRI), resulting in more than 1,350 peer-reviews studies published so far, that are helping us understand the oil’s fate and impacts and be better prepared for future spills. -
Sociologists Link Lessons from Deepwater Horizon to Long-Term Coronavirus Impacts
Posted on April 30, 2020Investigations into health impacts stemming from Deepwater Horizon may provide insights as to what we might anticipate later from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
