VIDEO OF THE WEEK Exquisite Mud: A History Book of the Gulf of Mexico A team of researchers from the University of South Florida uses a multi-corer to obtain deep sediment cores from the Gulf of Mexico. Back in the lab, they analyze the layers of sediment and build a history of the Gulf, with…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK It’s A Bit Like Family The Deepwater Horizon oil spill inspired an unprecedented scientific collaboration. Funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, this effort has fostered a new problem-solving approach—one that replaces individual investigations with interdisciplinary partnerships. Here, we learn about the community that has emerged: a global family dedicated…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Psychological Impact of an Oil Spill Watermen, oil field workers, and those dependent upon tourism for their livelihood still struggle with anger and anxiety years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. For generations, these Gulf residents have rebounded quickly from natural disasters. For the first time in their lives, they are…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet Tracie Sempier: Helping the People of the Gulf Tracie Sempier is a coastal storms outreach coordinator. She describes how, after Deepwater Horizon, her focus shifted from helping people handle natural disasters like hurricanes to helping people recover from man-made technological disasters like oil spills. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK…
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‘Dispatches from the Gulf 2’ Selected by the 16th Annual International Ocean Film Festival Out of hundreds of films submitted from around the world, a blue-ribbon panel of judges has just selected “Dispatches from the Gulf 2,” the newest episode in the television series, Journey To Planet Earth, for the 16th International Ocean Film Festival….
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK There is no video for the week of 01/23/19 PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: Can the Gulf’s Microbial “Worker Bees” Survive? Dr. Mandy Joye (University of Georgia) is a microbial geochemist. Part of her work includes studies on microbial oceanic “worker bees” that carry out critical processes and keep the ocean…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK I Was Shocked At How Little Was Known Kristin Koehler is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After Deepwater Horizon, she was surprised to discover that there were very few academic studies on the effects of oil spills on human populations. When the next spill…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK This Is Fishery Science Learn what a day as a fisheries biologist is like. We join a team of marine scientists from the University of South Florida while they capture red snapper and other fish to determine oil contamination levels post-Deepwater Horizon. [WATCH HERE] PODCAST OF THE WEEK GulfCast: I Was…
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