Summer 2016 – Education Spotlight – JULY 29, 2016 (From Summer 2016 Newsletter) ECOGIG brought their Ocean Discovery Zone Exhibit to the 2016 Atlanta Science Festival which took place in the Olympic Centennial Park in Atlanta and had over 17,000 attendees. Visit ECOGIG’s Facebook page for photos from the event and ECOGIG’s Vimeo page for…
Summer 2016 – GoMRI Researcher Interview with Dr. Frank Hernandez – JULY 29, 2016 (From Summer 2016 Newsletter) Dr. Frank Hernandez from the University of Southern Mississippi answered a few questions about his RFP-II project, Resolving Deepwater Horizon Impacts on Highly Variable Ichthyoplankton and Zooplankton Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and his role…
GoMRI Attends 2016 National Marine Educators Association Conference in Orlando – JULY 29, 2016 (From Summer 2016 Newsletter) Members of the GoMRI management team and several GoMRI Consortia outreach coordinators attended the 2016 National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) conference in Orlando, FL from June 27-July 1, 2016. GoMRI hosted a booth in the Exhibit Hall…
CRGC Helps to Build Resiliency Among Gulf Coast Communities – JULY 29, 2016 (From Summer 2016 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Elizabeth Thornton, CRGC Outreach Coordinator The Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC) is unique among the GoMRI-funded consortia; their efforts primarily focus on assessing and addressing the social, economic, and public health impacts of the Deepwater…
Oil Spill Scientists and GoMRI Community Gather in Tampa – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) This year’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference took place from February 1-4, 2016 at the Tampa Marriott Waterside in Tampa, Florida. More than 975 people from 16 countries, including the U.S., participated in the…
Dispatches from the Gulf Documentary Features GoMRI Scientists – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) Screenscope, Inc. has completed production of the Dispatches from the Gulf documentary film, which features scientists working to better understand the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dispatches from the Gulf is the newest episode in the Journey…
Spring 2016 – GoMRI Researcher Interview with Dr. Jack Gilbert – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) Dr. Jack Gilbert from the University of Chicago – Argonne National Laboratory answered a few questions about his RFP-II project, Creating a Predictive Model of Microbially Mediated Carbon Remediation in the Gulf of Mexico. 1. Thank you…
Spring 2016 – Education Spotlight – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) CWC Coastal Waters Consortium has two research experience for undergraduates (REUs) internship positions available for summer 2016. The internships will last for ten weeks starting in June 2016. Applications will be accepted until April 1, 2016. Please visit the CWC website for…
Slice ‘n Dice – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) Provided by Dr. Nancy Rabalais, CWC Director The sediment core group from Coastal Waters Consortium-II held their first expedition into the marshes of Terrebonne Bay in December 2015 to collect pond and marsh sediment cores for examining the historical trends in phytoplankton composition and…
Spring 2016 – Frequently Asked Questions by Dr. Chuck Wilson – MARCH 31, 2016 (From Spring 2016 Newsletter) Chief Scientific Officer for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) answers a few frequently asked questions about GoMRI’s data management system, GRIIDC (Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative). Question: The keynote address of…