C-IMAGE Research, The Loop: Recent Episodes
David Levin
The Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem (C-IMAGE) is an international research group studying the mechanisms and impacts of marine oil blowouts. Researchers from C-IMAGE sit down and talk with Dr. Ari Daniel Shaprio and David Levin of Mind Open Media to talk about their interest in better understanding oil spills.. C-IMAGE is funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) funded consortium multi-institutional research consortium dedicated to studying the effects of oil spills on the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico.
When when an oil spill occurs, it's extremly hard to figure out which major commercial fish species are at risk. A team of scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory hope to find out, however. At a facility 20 miles inland from the coast of Florida, they're growing adult fish—some of which are up to four feet long—in a series of huge tanks, and are slowly exposing them to oil. They're hoping their experients will show them how various species are affected by oil, both in the short term and the long term. If chemicals in oil affect their genes or their breeding, they say, the future of those species could be at risk.
For the first time in 35 years, Mexican and American scientists are collaborating to study the 1979
For more than a thousand years, life in Hamburg, Germany has revolved around water. This riverside city is one of Europe’s biggest ports. But today, a group of scientists is focused on waters half a world away, in the Gulf of Mexico. Using a thick metal tank the size of a hot water heater, they're testing water and oil samples from the
Three years after the BP oil well disaster, scientists are struggling to understand the effects on the Gulf ecosystem. From Mind Open Media, David Levin reports on the oil's impact on the tiny creatures that form the base of the food chain. C-IMAGE researchers Kendra Daly, Dana Wetzel and Patrick Schwing talk about the impacts of oil on lower trophic levels and the potential for long term impact on the higher trophic levels.
Fisheries biologist Steve Murawski from the University of South Florida is leading an international team of researchers to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Their plan: focus not just on the surface, but in the deep ocean. In this podcast, we dig into their research.