USM Whale Researchers Find Little Oil in Gulf of Mexico

In July, we brought you on board the research vessel "Odyssey" as faculty and students with the Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health at the University of Southern Maine prepared to set sail for the Gulf of Mexico. The BP oil well had exploded in the spring, and the group wanted to study its impact on whales and other marine life. Well, the crew recently returned from nearly four months of collecting whale tissue samples along the Gulf, from Key West to Corpus Christi, Texas. They were surprised by what they found--or in this case, didn't find.


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