GOMRI

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 $2.54 million by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (http://gulfresearchinitiative.org/) to conduct scientific studies of the impacts of oil on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and public health.

Thousands of species of fish live in the Gulf of Mexico, so many that no one knows how many are really out there. A Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher hopes to solve at least part of the puzzle.