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ECOGIG Research Informs Development of Ocean-Based Video Game: Beyond Blue
Posted on June 17, 2020There is now a novel way to reach audiences and help spark their interest in ocean science that involves the very popular world of video gaming. Launched by E-Line Media in conjunction with the BBC and researchers involved with their Blue Planet II series, the single-player narrative adventure Beyond Blue takes players deep into our ocean’s mysterious and fascinating world. -
On Wednesday, June 10th, GoMRI leadership stood in solidarity with #ShutDownSTEM. GoMRI fully acknowledges that Black Lives Matter and changes need to be made in the scientific community, and we will work with our communities to eliminate racism from scientific research. We stand behind the recent statements made by AAAS and our partner organizations.
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Sea Grant Releases Report on Fostering Researcher-Responder Collaboration
Posted on June 11, 2020The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) is pleased to announce a new report that draws from five workshops hosted by the Sea Grant Oil Spill Outreach Team where emergency responders and oil spill science researchers from around the Gulf of Mexico gathered to learn from one another. -
![(From The Christian Science Monitor / Doug Struck / June 10, 2020) Why We Wrote This – When a long-term project winds down, reflecting on gains and losses is part […]](https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/GOMRIintheNews-125x125.png "Deepwater Horizon: What we learned from worst oil spill ever")
Deepwater Horizon: What we learned from worst oil spill ever
Posted on June 10, 2020(From The Christian Science Monitor / Doug Struck / June 10, 2020) Why We Wrote This – When a long-term project winds down, reflecting on gains and losses is part […] -
How Grad Student Tang Observes Oil’s Big Impacts on Tiny Predators and Their Prey
Posted on June 2, 2020Marine protists are single-celled planktonic creatures that form the base of the marine food web and perform important ecosystem services, including driving photosynthesis and the carbon and nitrogen cycles. -
![National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Upcoming Webinar Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current June 2, […]](https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/job_pic-125x125.jpg "Opportunity: Upcoming Webinar – Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current")
Opportunity: Upcoming Webinar – Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current
Posted on May 29, 2020National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Upcoming Webinar Facing an Active 2020 Hurricane Season: Impacts of the Loop Current June 2, […] -
Science That Makes Us Better Prepared for the Next Spill: Ocean Flows and Oil Transport
Posted on May 28, 2020Here are highlights from selected GoMRI-funded peer-reviewed publications related to advancements in knowledge about physical ocean processes that affect how an oil spill moves. -
Grad Student Dandekar Examines How Ocean Layers Affect Microbial Motion Towards Oil
Posted on May 19, 2020Hydrocarbon-degrading microbes living in ocean environments consumed and metabolized oil droplets following Deepwater Horizon, which significantly influenced the oil’s fate in the Gulf of Mexico. -
Grad Student Jacketti Enhances Modeling Capability to Track Sunken Oil
Posted on May 12, 2020Oil spilled in the ocean can sink to the seafloor due to its high density or by attaching to floating particulate matter, as happened during the Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation and Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA) event following Deepwater Horizon. -
FSU researchers study Gulf of Mexico in international collaboration
Posted on May 6, 2020(From EurekAlert! / May 6, 2020) When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a blowout in 2010 and began spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists got to work […]
