Marine Life
Scientists fear the oil's negative effects on marine life great and small, from bottlenose dolphins and bluefin tuna, to jellyfish and phytoplankton. The first order of business is to grab a baseline picture of Gulf of Mexico populations that haven't been hit by oil; the second is to plan research projects to track an impact that promises to be profound, complex, and long term.
Marine Life: Updates
4 February 2011
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Embattled Author and Critics Agree: Gulf Recovery Assessment 'Not Based on Data'
With the fate of the commercial seafood industry in the Gulf of Mexico hanging in the balance, the manager of the $20-billion victims compensation fund has issued this week...
15 July 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Headcount of Sea Turtles Proves Elusive
Government agencies don't have the data they need to accurately count populations of the six species of endangered and threatened sea turtles in the United States, says a report...
7 July 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Researchers Watch For Effects of Oil on the Gulf's Endangered Behemoths
In the Gulf of Mexico, oil has fouled a key habitat of one of the most impressive creatures on Earth: the sperm whale, the world's largest toothed whale. A...
29 June 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Thousands of Sea Turtle Eggs To Be Moved Out of Oil's Way
For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico—and dangerously near the oil—it's come to this: Officials are planning...
28 June 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Will Floating Seaweed Be Another Oil Casualty?
Florida beachgoers sometimes mistake the ugly brown mats for trash, but sargassum, a floating seaweed, plays an important role in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, harboring fish larvae, young...
25 June 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Analyses of Early Turtle Deaths Do Not Implicate Oil
The tally of dead sea turtles found since the Deepwater Horizon disaster hit 417 today. But just nine of those found so far have had visible signs of oil,...
3 June 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Moratorium Shuts Down Oceanographer's Research on Deep-Sea Life
The six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has had an unintended consequence for one scientist working there. Since 2006, Mark Benfield, an oceanographer at Louisiana...
3 June 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
No 'Smoking Gun' for Killer Oil
In the last few weeks, 228 dead sea turtles and 29 dead marine mammals have been found in the Gulf of Mexico. But determining why they died is far...
26 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Toxicity Aside, Dispersants Could Undermine Natural Oil-Eaters
Dispersants, which include molecules called surfactants, work much like dish detergent, helping clean up oil spills by breaking oil blobs into tiny droplets. Natural microbes in the ocean can...
24 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
As Scientists Encounter Oil Some Find Death 'All the Way Down'
Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to see oil from the blown Deepwater Horizon well intrude on their research sites. Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the...
20 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
First Turtle Rescued
Michael Ziccardi, an Oiled Wildlife Care Network veterinarian advising the spill response in Louisiana, blogs that the first oiled turtle since the spill, a 2-pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued...
20 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
What's Happening to Marine Life?
Just after the spill, researchers at the state-funded Dauphin Island Sea Lab off the Alabama coast stepped up their existing research to trawl for plankton along a 56-kilometer stretch south...
19 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Oil and the Dead Zone
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a "dead zone" is also having its annual growth spurt. It's not clear how these two complex systems will...
6 May 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Four Ways the Gulf Oil Disaster Was Really Bad Timing
Breeding Season: Invertebrates, sea turtles, and birds will be facing the brunt of the spill just as they are laying eggs or caring for them in important wildlife areas....
30 April 2010
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ScienceInsider(Science - AAAS)
Can Microbes Save the Gulf Beaches? The Challenges Are Myriad
At this point it's unclear how much of an environmental threat oil spreading from the BP spill will cause, but the federal government is mobilizing thousands of workers to...
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