Scientists on Alvin have Eyes on the Bottom of Deepwater Horizon Site
Going after a literal “deeper understanding,” researchers are currently making multiple trips to the blowout site 5,000 feet below water surface.
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GOOies Descend on Florida Beaches to Continue Oil Spill Research
In late February, a team of 25 future scientists went on a beachcombing expedition like no other.
Podcasts Highlight International Partners in High Pressure World of Deep Sea Research
Scientists half a world away from the Deepwater Horizon site are getting the first close glimpse of how oil likely behaved deep underwater during the spill
Study Shows Gulf Killifish had Complex Genomic Response to Oil Spill Toxins
A team of researchers from Texas, Florida, and California successfully quantified the gene expression of wild Fundulus grandis, commonly known as Gulf killifish, from the northern Gulf of Mexico in assessing exposure to toxicants from the 2010 oil spill.
Scientists to Revisit Wellhead Site in Legendary Research Submarine
A team of scientists led by the University of Georgia’s Samantha Joye will spend much of April deep underwater, surveying the ocean floor around the Deepwater Horizon blowout that discharged roughly 5 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Modeling Study Adds Evidence that Oil Compounds Traveled to West Florida Shelf
Scientists from the University of South Florida used circulation models to conduct a tracer simulation and compared output patterns with ecological analyses to determine the possibility that hydrocarbons from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill could have moved onto the West Florida Shelf
Watkins Award for Excellence in Research for Outstanding Posters
GoMRI congratulates Karen Malone, of the Hamburg University of Technology, and Nicholas Geitner, of Clemson University
Study Finds Jellyfish are Monitors for and Conveyors of Crude Oil Toxins
A team of scientists from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, including students from California and China, assessed the effects of crude oil exposure on adult and larval gelatinous zooplankton species – some commonly referred to as jellyfish.
Research Footprint Growing in the Gulf of Mexico
Scientists funded through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) have been surveying the Gulf and its marine environment since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill over three years ago.
Smithsonian Publicizes CARTHE Drifters Research
The Smithsonian Ocean Portal posted a story on the GoMRI-funded CARTHE project, a multi-year research effort to study how the ocean moves.