VIDEO OF THE WEEK The Mud and Blood Cruise The Weatherbird embarks on a two-week research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico with a mission to collect and analyze fish and soil samples near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dave Hollander and Steve Murawski from the University of South Florida lead the…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK The CSI Effect: Using Forensics to Study Oil Spills When scientists couple the practices of geology with the strategies of crime scene forensics, they are able to look at an incident from every angle: “The present is the key to the past, but the past provides a window into the future.” Researchers…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Dr. Cynthia Smith: Close Encounters with Dolphins Dr. Cynthia Smith is the Executive Director and the Director of Medicine for the National Marine Mammal Foundation. She and her team are responsible for the medical care and wellbeing of the US Navy’s dolphin population in San Diego. Dr. Smith is applying what…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Eric D’Asaro: I Didn’t Follow in My Father’s Footsteps Dr. Eric D’Asaro (University of Washington) served as the chief scientist during a 31-day research mission to study how the oil spreads out via ocean currents. He shares his thoughts on choosing the environmental sciences as a career, dispels the myth of…
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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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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Meet Sarah Muffelman: The Next Generation of Oceanographers Sarah Muffelman (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory) is comparing red snapper captured before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with red snapper captured after to see how their feeding habits have changed. She hopes her research will help better plan for any future disasters and…
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VIDEO OF THE WEEK Encouraging Women in Science Professor Samantha “Mandy” Joye (University of Georgia) shares how her personal journey to becoming a scientist—from a childhood passion for the ocean to the decision to forgo medical school for a Ph.D. program despite the absence of female faculty—has inspired her to encourage young women in the…
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