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Check out the Port Aransas South Jetty article highlighting DROPPS research.

October 13, 2013

Check out the Port Aransas South Jetty article highlighting DROPPS research. — Working in a lab at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute are, from left, professors Brad Gemmell, Ed Buskey and Rodrigo Almeda, all studying the effects of oil and dispersants on plankton. They were wearing protective glasses because they were using lasers as part of their research. (Photo credit: DROPPS)

DROPPS scientists in Port Aransas have found that dispersants used to break up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were more harmful to certain tiny Gulf of Mexico creatures than the oil itself.

Research sponsored by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative