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Fish with lesions, diseased livers and spleens - and parts of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico coated with a toxic slime. These are some of the things researchers continue to find three years after the Deepwater Horizon well exploded. A team based at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science has been taking samples in the Gulf to determine the lingering effects of the oil spill. It's called C-IMAGE, which stands for the Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem. It's a collaboration of chemists, engineers, biologists - even computer scientists. Together, they're trying to figure out exactly what a deep water blowout does to the marine ecosystem - and what to expect in future blowouts.
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Watch this model run to determine the different layers of where the oil plumes are located
Watch as USF student Liz Herdter extracts ear bones from a red grouper for growth studies during the last C-IMAGE cruise in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
This video was taken earlier this month in the northern Gulf of Mexico off the research vessel Weatherbird II on a C-IMAGE cruise. A multi-corer is used to recover undisturbed sediments from the ocean floor. See what a multi-corer sees as it is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico to collect sediment samples.