VIDEO OF THE WEEK Kristen Dahl: The Fish Detective Kristen Dahl is a PhD student at University of South Alabama. She’s studying lionfish for her dissertation. In 2010, lionfish began showing up in the northern Gulf of Mexico. With no native predators, their populations have exploded – and they’re expanding into the western Gulf. Using…
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Join Us This Week for Two Special Screenings of Dispatches From The Gulf – 2 University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Thursday, April 19 @ 6:00 pm Join RECOVER and CARTHE for a screening and panel discussion with some of the scientists in the film. In honor of the anniversary of…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Helga Huntley: “Sidetracked” Into Oceanography Helga Huntley is a professor at the University of Delaware. Her background is in mathematics, but while in graduate school she got “sidetracked” in oceanography. Her current focus is atmospheric ocean science and the study of currents. She was lured out of the lab by CARTHE’s…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Lessons From The Past: The 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In 1989, 11 million gallons of crude leaked from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound in Alaska, devastating everything in its path and causing fishery collapses in the years that followed. Based on historical evidence such as this,…
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