VIDEO OF THE WEEK The CSI Effect: Using Forensics to Study Oil Spills When scientists couple the practices of geology with the strategies of crime scene forensics, they are able to look at an incident from every angle: “The present is the key to the past, but the past provides a window into the future.”…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Psychological Impact of an Oil Spill Watermen, oil field workers, and those dependent upon tourism for their livelihood still struggle with anger and anxiety years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. For generations, these Gulf residents have rebounded quickly from natural disasters. For the first time in their lives, they are…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet Tracie Sempier: Helping the People of the Gulf Tracie Sempier is a coastal storms outreach coordinator. She describes how, after Deepwater Horizon, her focus shifted from helping people handle natural disasters like hurricanes to helping people recover from man-made technological disasters like oil spills. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK This Is Fishery Science Learn what a day as a fisheries biologist is like. We join a team of marine scientists from the University of South Florida while they capture red snapper and other fish to determine oil contamination levels post-Deepwater Horizon. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: Star Trek…
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