HAPPY THANKSGIVING The “Dispatches From The Gulf” team wishes everyone a happy holiday. Dispatches from the Gulf 1: Science • Community • Recovery In the years after Deepwater Horizon – the biggest oil spill in U.S. history – a global team of scientists is working together to understand its environmental impact on humans, wildlife, and…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Mardi Gras, Jazz, and Oysters (Part 2) Dr. Sean Powers is chairman of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama. He and his colleague, Meagan Schrandt, are studying oyster reefs along the Gulf coast. One of their key missions is to discover why Louisiana oyster reefs haven’t recovered since the…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Mardi Gras, Jazz, and Oysters (Part 1) New Orleans is a city defined by Mardi Gras, jazz, and oysters – lots of oysters. For more than 150 years, Louisiana was the nation’s largest source of the shellfish. Thanks to a perfect combination of brackish and warm water, each day thousands of…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Marshes: Good News & Bad News Professor Ed Overton and his team from LSU are monitoring the condition of Louisiana’s coastal marshes. These marshes are nursery grounds for the northern Gulf of Mexico fisheries. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill flowed down into crab burrows and stayed buried along the beaches….
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Dolphins of Barataria Bay (Part 2) A team of NMMF and NOAA veterinarians, biologists, and wildlife epidemiologists participate in a 10-day mission to evaluate the health of Barataria Bay’s bottlenose dolphins. Their goal is to discover any chronic health issues linked to oil exposure. And because dolphins are mammals and…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Dolphins of Barataria Bay (Part 1) Barataria Bay’s salt marshes and mangroves are fertile nesting grounds and nurseries for birds and fish. And despite being hit hard by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon event, these waters teem with hundreds of species of marine animals. It’s also the permanent home for 1,300…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Dispatches from the Gulf 1: Science • Community • Recovery In April 2010 – 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana – the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig exploded. Tragically, the blowout killed 11 and changed the lives of millions living near the Gulf coast. To uncover what happened, a global team…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Mud and Blood Cruise – Part Six: Final Thoughts The “Mud and Blood Cruise” is a two-week research mission that collects and analyzes fish and soil samples near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As oil and gas exploration moves further offshore and into deeper environments, deep-sea or…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Mud and Blood Cruise – Part Five: The Process of Discovery Continues The “Mud and Blood Cruise” is a two-week research mission that collects and analyzes fish and soil samples near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This week, after the Weatherbird returns to port, research moves to…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Mud and Blood Cruise – Part Four: Tracking Contamination The “Mud and Blood Cruise” is a two-week research mission that collects and analyzes fish and soil samples near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This week, the “mud team” launches a device that collects sediment samples from the…
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