Travel and economic slowdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic combined to put the brakes on shipping, seafloor exploration and many other human activities in the ocean, creating a unique moment to begin a time-series study of the impacts of sound on marine life. A community of scientists has identified more than 200 nonmilitary ocean hydrophones worldwide and hopes to make
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By Jessica Mejia As the world looks forward to a COVID-19 vaccine, one organism and its copper-based, blue blood is playing a major role helping to ensure prevention of contaminants in human health treatments. Around for more than 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have earned the nickname the “living fossil.” They have been in the spotlight over the past couple
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TDI-Brooks recently completed two environmental post-operations surveys (EPOS) projects in Mexico for TOTAL in Block 2 (Perdido) and Capricorn Energy Mexico (CAIRN) in Block 9 (Sureste Basin). The Block 2 EPOS program was in deepwater (approximately 3,300 m) offshore northern Mexico, while the CAIRN project was in shallow water. These were the first EPOS programs completed in a COVID-19 work
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