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…

C-IMAGE and Story Collider Collaboration at AGU – JANUARY 14, 2020 (From Fall 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Ari Daniel On the evening of Thursday, December 12, C-IMAGE welcomed Story Collider to the annual AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Story Collider is an organization dedicated to telling and sharing true, personal stories about science on…

GoMRI Attends the Centennial AGU Fall Meeting – JANUARY 14, 2020 (From Fall 2019 Newsletter) Members of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) management team and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) attended the 2019 Centennial celebration of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at its annual Fall Meeting. GoMRI…

Screenscope Films Releases Dispatches from the Gulf 3 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 (From Summer 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Rebecca Howland “The most common question is, Has the Gulf of Mexico recovered from the oil spill?” Dr. Chuck Wilson, Dispatches from the Gulf 3 Screenscope Films, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), and the GoMRI…

C-IMAGE Leads the Publication of Two Books Focused on Oil Spills – JUNE 19, 2019 (From Spring 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Sherryl Gilbert, C-IMAGE Assistant Director Two text books focused on oil spill science and response have been published by Springer Nature Publishing Company. The development of the books was led by the Center for…

2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference – APRIL 5, 2019 Oil Spill Science, Response, and Restoration Communities Convene in New Orleans, Louisiana (From Winter 2019 Newsletter) Members of the oil spill science, response, and restoration communities gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana from February 4-7 for the 2019 Gulf of Mexico Oil…

GoMRI Consortia Outreach Coordinators Partner on Special Issue of Current: The Journal of Marine Education – APRIL 5, 2019 (From Winter 2019 Newsletter) The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) consortia outreach coordinators partnered to produce a special issue of Current: The Journal of Marine Education, published by the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) titled…

GoMRI Attends the 2018 Clean Gulf Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana – JANUARY 8, 2019 (From Fall 2018 Newsletter) Members of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) management team, the Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant Oil Spill Science Outreach team, and the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) attended the…

GoMRI Outreach Coordinators Publish Recommendations Article in Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin – OCTOBER 12, 2018 (From Summer 2018 Newsletter) Contributing Authors: Tina Miller-Way, Sara Beresford, and Katie Fillingham Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) outreach coordinators Tina Miller- Way from the Alabama Center for Ecological Resilience (ACER), Sara Beresford from the Ecosystem Impacts of Oil…