Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

On Wednesday, April 4th, Texas A&M University at Galveston professor, Dr. Jessica Labonté, spoke at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Texas City at a “Lunch and Learn” event to raise awareness of local environmental issues.

A research consortium led by Dr. Antonietta Quigg, Professor of Marine Biology and Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Texas A&M’s Galveston campus, was awarded $7.25 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/ to conduct scientific studies of the impacts of oil on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and public health.