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 leads an 18-day research cruise with colleagues from Florida State. The team’s mission is to catch deep ocean fish living near the site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and create a baseline, as well as to discover the long-term impact on…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK A Tale of Two Spills (Part 2) On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew. More than 200 million gallons of oil escaped into the Gulf over the course of 87 days. Even after a massive cleanup effort, oil slicks covered nearly 65,000 square miles, stretching from the salt…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK A Tale of Two Spills (Part 1) Settled more than 400 hundred years ago by Spanish conquistadors, Campeche, Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For centuries, the city relied on the bounty of the Gulf for its economic stability—and local fisherman still mine its waters today. But, in 1979, the…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Dispatches from the Gulf 3 “Has the Gulf of Mexico recovered from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?” As the tenth anniversary of the disaster approaches, this question is regularly posed. An international team of scientists has spent nearly that long studying its environmental impact on humans, wildlife, and the ecosystem. They provide…
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