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 from these tiny biodegradable buoys will recalibrate our understanding of ocean currents.
To be successful, the team has to actually get out into the middle of the Gulf. But the weather has other plans…
PODCAST OF THE WEEK
GulfCast: Lessons from the Past
In 1989, 11 million gallons of crude leaked from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound, Alaska — devastating everything in its path and causing fishery collapses in the years that followed.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Ocean Hope Spots: The Costa Rica Thermal Dome
Mission Blue expeditions have visited Hope Spots around the world, documenting these vibrant marine environments and engaging local stakeholders to protect them. In March 2017, we joined MarViva on an expedition to the Costa Rica Thermal Dome Hope Spot, an open-ocean phenomenon that forms every spring between 150 and 300 miles off the western coast of Costa Rica. One of the world’s highest concentrations of phytoplankton and primary productivity rates occurs in the Dome, making the area a preferred habitat for endangered, emblematic species like the blue whale and leatherback turtle.
In addition to acting as a significant carbon sink, the Dome serves as a breeding ground, feeding place and migratory corridor for sharks, multiple cetaceans, sea turtles, large pelagic fish, marine predators, and seabirds.
Photo courtesy of Mission Blue.
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 goal of learning how to better cope with future oil spills.
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Dispatches from the Gulf 2: Research • Innovation • Discovery
Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the impact of Deepwater Horizon and find new ways to ease the devastation. Includes the never-before-documented drama of bottlenose dolphins struggling to survive, and the capture of one of the world’s largest predatory sharks.
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Mensajes del Golfo de México
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Additional funding provided by the Wallace Genetic Foundation and the Farvue Foundation.
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