Oil-Munching Mini-Monsters
Students will learn about oil-eating bacteria. They will determine the best environmental conditions necessary for oil digestion.
Keyword: Oil Spill
Modeling the Oil Spill in the Gulf
In 2010, the BP Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon exploded releasing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Many physical ocean characteristics can effect the flow of the oil. In this activity students will look at the surface winds of 2 buoys in the Gulf of Mexico and graph the data.
Oil Spill Disaster–Whose Problem is it?
Over the course of this project, students will be expected to collaborate and share collected data with classroom communities to create a final product that interprets possible connections on the impact of marine life and the human and natural communities in the gulf; cost of clean-up efforts and who will bear the burden of the […]
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Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea. The need to understand the ocean in all its complexity and variability drives MBARI's research and development efforts.