Farewell 2020 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

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…

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Participants in the Vulnerability and Resilience of Species and Ecosystems to Large-Scale Contamination Events: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon (Core Area 3) workshop held in Washington, D.C., from October 9-11. Photo Credit: Abby Ackerman/Consortium for Ocean Leadership.

Fall 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

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…

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Participants in the Ecosystem Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Event (Core Area 3) workshop held in St. Petersburg, Florida from July 23-25, 2019. Photo Credit: Sean Beckwith/C-IMAGE.

Summer 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

Summer 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 (From Summer 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff Two workshops took place during the summer months to further synthesize the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative’s (GoMRI) research across two topics. The Living on the Edge: Enhancing the Sustainability of Coupled Human-Environment Systems in the…

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Participants in the Fate of Oil and Weathering: Biological and Physical-chemical Degradation (Core Area 2) workshop held in Washington, D.C. from June 12-14, 2019. Photo Credit: Abby Ackerman.

Spring 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

Spring 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – JUNE 19, 2019 (From Spring 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff Synthesis and Legacy activities are fully underway as the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) continues to encapsulate and celebrate an entire decade of research. The interrelation of the eight Core Areas and their contributions to the GoMRI legacy were highlighted in the last issue…

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Winter 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

Winter 2019 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – APRIL 5, 2019 (From Winter 2019 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff As we approach 2020 and the conclusion of GoMRI’s investment in research, the final Synthesis and Legacy workshops are being planned and executed. The contributions of the Synthesis Core Areas – big and small – help…

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Photo Caption: Participants in the Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Research (Core Area 3) workshop held in Washington, D.C., from October 31-November 2, 2018. Photo Credit: Abby Ackerman.

Fall 2018 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

Fall 2018 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – JANUARY 8, 2019 (From Fall 2018 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative’s (GoMRI) Synthesis and Legacy efforts are well underway, with several Synthesis workshops already having occurred throughout the country. The range of topics discussed has been quite varied, from one workshop…

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Summer 2018 – Synthesis & Legacy

Summer 2018 – Synthesis & Legacy – OCTOBER 12, 2018 (From Spring 2018 Newsletter) Contributing Author: Callan Yanoff The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative’s (GoMRI) Synthesis and Legacy efforts are beginning to blossom into their respective core area workshops. Interweaving these meetings with the consortia and individual investigator-led workshops and synthesis efforts will determine how…

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Spring 2018 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy

Spring 2018 – GoMRI Synthesis & Legacy – JUNE 19, 2018 (From Spring 2018 Newsletter) The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) will come to an end in 2020 after 10 years of dedicated research efforts to understand the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The GoMRI Research Board has begun to consider GoMRI’s legacy…

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