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…
Farewell 2020 – Frequently Asked Questions – JULY 15, 2020 (From Farewell 2020 Newsletter) For this farewell newsletter issue, we asked a group of individuals from across GoMRI a few Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about their experience as part of the program. We thank these individuals for taking the time to provide such thoughtful responses.…
Fall 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – JANUARY 14, 2020 (From Fall 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative’s (GoMRI) Synthesis and Legacy efforts have shifted from hosting scientific workshops to focusing on the subsequent products, legacy pieces, and outreach activities. These elements have become vehicles to broadly distribute…
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…
Fall 2019 – Frequently Asked Questions with Dr. Chuck Wilson – JANUARY 14, 2020 (From Fall 2019 Newsletter) Dr. Chuck Wilson, Chief Scientific Officer for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), answered a few frequently asked questions. Question: How excited are you for the GoMRI Symposium on February 3? Answer: So excited! Question: Can…