"Congress also should require oceangoing research ships to be stationed full time in the Gulf and other drilling locations."
-  Samantha Joye, marine scientist at the University of Georgia, as quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune online edition, regarding an article she contributed to that was published April 12, 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


(pictured at left: Red starfish cling to oil-coated coral damaged by Gulf oil spill in October 2010; photo courtesy NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, via The Associated Press.)