Happy Holidays! — The “Dispatches From The Gulf” team. 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 the ecosystem with the…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Centers of Innovation: Out of the Field and Into the Lab Far from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thousands of scientists are working together to fully understand the implications of the oil spill. And this is where their work usually begins – in research laboratories that are centers…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Secrets from the Deep (Part 2) Marine scientist Dean Grubbs and his team set long-lines for sharks, including some of the biggest predatory species in the world, like tiger sharks and the elusive, deep-dwelling sixgill shark. Taking samples from one of these sixteen-foot monsters will give the team a better idea…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Secrets from the Deep (Part 1) Dr. Dean Grubbs, a world-renowned shark scientist, grew up thinking he could follow any number of career paths—as long as they didn’t demand regular haircuts. But he kept coming back to the fascination he felt catching a small shark when he was only 7 years…
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