When: Monday February 5, 2018 Where: Morial Convention Center Room 352 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70130 Objectives Since 2011, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) has enabled the investigation of the effects of oil spills on the…
Findings from a new study published in PLoS One suggest additional impacts on fish communities from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DwH) oil spill may occur in the coming years. The study titled “Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill evaluated…
C-IMAGE is developing computer models to estimate the fate and concentration of oil. But a major factor of predicting this accurately is knowing what the droplet size distribution was at the well head in a high pressure environment. Tasks 1…
In 2008 I moved from the east coast of Canada, where I finished my Master’s degree in Science, to Florida to start my career at Florida State University. I had never imagined that I would still be here after what…
So this is my third Mud & Blood cruise, and my focus is definitely on the mud! One Gulf Expedition Hub My name is Travis Washburn, and I work at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. My dissertation focused on…
USF-Marine Science | Fishing Team, Ecosystem Modeling I am part of the ecological modelling team of C-IMAGE. More specifically, I am working on an Atlantis model for the southern Gulf of Mexico. During the first leg of the 2017 One…
USF Marine Science | Outreach & Operations Making expectations for this cruise was difficult, on top of me having only one leg of a Mud & Blood cruise under my belt, a collaborative cruise to Cuba has not occurred in…
After this cruise to Cuba, I have circumnavigated the Gulf of Mexico on the R/V Weatherbird II! I have participated in each Mud & Blood cruise since 2012, from the northern Gulf, to the Yucatan, Bay of Campeche, Texas and…
Centro de Investigaciones Marinas-University of Havana | Recent sediments for paleo-environmental studies, Mud team ¿Cuáles fueron sus expectativas en el crucero? ¿Científicamente? ¿Colaborativamente? Siempre esperé aprender mucho durante la estancia en el WeatherBird II. Ciertamente superó mis expectativas, conocer toda la…
Centro de Investigaciones Marinas-University of Havana | Sharks diversity, abundance and distribution | Fish team What were your expectations leading into the cruise? Scientifically? Collaboratively? To conduct sampling using bottom longline gear in order to collect information about the fish…
