VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet Dean Grubbs: Building Baseline Data for Large Gulf Fish Join Dean Grubbs and his team searching for amazing deep sea creatures of the Gulf of Mexico during an intense 24/7 research cruise. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: The Psychological Impacts of an Oil Spill Watermen, oil field workers,…
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Dispatches E-News: Meet David Murphy, Unexpected Inspiration & Drifter Card BOLO (01/18/17)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet David Murphy: The Next Generation of Scientists Dr. David Murphy (JHU) describes one of his research projects that simulates how dispersants break up oil, change the structure of the oil plume, and affect where it travels in ocean currents. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: Eureka Moments: Inspiration Comes…
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Dispatches E-News: Coring For Mud, When You Fail & A Shortfin Mako (01/11/17)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet David Hollander: Coring for Mud Dr. David Hollander (University of South Florida) conducts experiments that remove sediment cores from the ocean basin and examines them for Macondo oil contamination spewed from the Deepwater Horizon site. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: When You Fail, You Are Doing Good Science…
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Dispatches E-News: Nature vs. Oil, New Oceanographers & Plume Formation (01/04/17)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK Chris Reddy: A Career Spent Studying Oil Spills Chris Reddy, senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, focuses his research on the never-ending war between nature and oil. Sunlight in particular has had surprising effects on residual Macondo oil. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: Tracy Harvey – The New…
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