VIDEO OF THE WEEK Scientific Collaborations: Thousands of Researchers Studying Deepwater Horizon “Dispatches from the Gulf 2” chronicles the unprecedented scientific effort still taking place in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Thousands of scientists have formed an international team working together to better understand the impacts of the oil on everything from…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Tracking Ocean Currents (Part 2) As the mission continues, the researchers are being tossed around by rough seas. They call in air support to give them a better idea of their forecast. Fortunately, the weather turns and the team is able to deploy the drifters. Their goal is to predict where…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Tracking Ocean Currents (Part 1) A team of scientists is embarking on a unique mission to better understand the world’s oceans. Two large research vessels hold more than 1,000 devices called drifters that will be thrown overboard—at very careful intervals, in a very specific pattern—to see where they drift. Real-time data…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK European Partners Thousands of miles from the Gulf of Mexico, scientists in Norway and Germany are collaborating with Johns Hopkins and the University of South Florida on oil spill studies. Researchers created a tower basin to recreate the conditions of a deep-sea oil well blow out in miniature. This impressive set…
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Happy New Year Wishing everyone a joyful 2018. 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 ultimate…
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