All Pieces for David Levin

 
Episode 2: Into the Field
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
Episode 8: Return to Ixtoc
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: PhD students Adriana Gaytán-Caballero and Travis Washburn collect tiny animals from a sediment sample taken at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
For the first time in 35 years, Mexican and American scientists are working together to study the Ixtoc 1 spill, a massive oil blowout that happene...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7: The Gulf's Big Blowouts
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Through an alley in the old section of Ciudad del Carmen, dozens of ships serving the oil industry are visible just offshore.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened just a few years ago. But it might be possible to predict its impact on the Gulf years into the future by ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:08
Episode 6: Dispersants and New Solutions
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Inside these metal chambers, Rudi Müller and his team grow bacteria under extreme pressure., Credit: USF
Rudi Müller is a microbiologist in Hamburg, Germany. He says that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in 2010, a large amount of oil may...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:48
Episode 5: Under Pressure
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researchers Steve Murawski, Karen Malone, and David Hollander stand next to a metal chamber used to test samples under extreme pressure., Credit: USF
For more than a thousand years, life in Hamburg, Germany has revolved around water. This riverside city is one of Europe’s biggest ports. But today...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 07:43
Episode 4: Modeling the Gulf
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Modeling an entire ecosystem is so complex, it needs this supercomputing center at the University of South Florida to handle all of the data involved., Credit: Brian Smith
A team of researchers from the University of South Florida is building a virtual version of the entire Gulf ecosystem inside a computer. Why? Find ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 06:45
Episode 3: The Little Guys
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: The fate of tiny phytoplankton, like these pictured above, can have a major impact on the rest of the food chain., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In this episode, we’re taking a look at the little guys: the tiny plants and animals at the bottom of the Gulf’s food chain. Even though they’re mi...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
Episode 1: A New Disaster
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researchers prepare to take samples of the ocean floor using a multicore device.
Biologist Steve Murawski is leading a new team of researchers trying to figure out the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill—not just on ...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Into the Gulf
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Researcher Patrick Schwing prepares a multicore sampler aboard the R/V Weatherbird II., Credit: David Levin
Years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the fish in the Gulf of Mexico—in fact, the whole ecosystem out there—is still feeling its effects. Ho...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 09:15

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