Tuxpan, MX It’s well after midnight aboard the Mexican research vessel Justo Sierra, but an international team of scientists are busy securing marine water and mud samples brought aboard the ship off the coast of Campeche. Digging 35 years into the…
2 August 2015: Day 3 on the Justo Sierra and everyone is starting to figure out their roles. It was a bit of a rough start. At the first site I almost dropped a precious core, and one of…
You can follow Dr. Isabel Romero on twitter, @IsabelR0mer0 1 August 2015: Good seas keep us on track! The beautiful weather has shortened the transit time a great deal these first days, as the sites are spread…
It's been 2 days at sea and I still have the will to keep searching for answers. This is not my first research cruise, but there is something about the open sea that makes it look like a brand new…
Shaojie Sun is a graduate student at the USF-College of Marine Science. Originally from China, he is working towards his PhD in Dr. Chuanmin Hu’s optical oceanography lab. Sun research “is focused on using satellite images to detect and quantify…
The Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator (TAMOC) is a new, freely available modeling suite for predicting fate and transport of oil and gas released from subsea accidents. The model is coded in Python and Fortran and is freely available from http://github.com/socolofs/tamoc.…
The objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil discharge at the seafloor as recorded in bottom sediments of the DeSoto Canyon region in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Through a close coupling…
SAVE THE DATE! The Oil Spill Outreach Team would like to inform you of three workshops/science seminars that we will be hosting in the next couple of months. Please mark your calendars and join us! Impacts of Oil on Coastal…
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill released 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) over 87 days. Sediment and water sampling efforts were concentrated SW of the DWH and in coastal areas. Here we present geochemistry data…
Our Ecotoxicology Study is a collaboration between MOTE Marine Laboratory, Wageningen University, University of West Florida, and USF-College of Marine Science looking at the toxicity of oil in Gulf fishes using samples collected in situ and in the exposure experiments.…
