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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>FYI, Carolyn Marsh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=black face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black;font-weight:bold'>A
Gulf Science Blackout<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-weight:bold'>By LINDA HOOPER-BUI<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black'>Baton Rouge</span></font></st1:City><font
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color:black'>, <st1:State w:st="on">La.</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
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size=1 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:black'>THE Deepwater Horizon blowout may be capped and the surface oil
slick dispersed, but the scientists’ job has just begun: hundreds of us
are working in and around the gulf to determine the long-term environmental
impact of the drilling disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=1 color=black face=Georgia><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
color:black'>Although we are all doing needed research, we’re not
receiving equal money or access to the affected sites. Those working for BP or
the federal government’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment program are
being given the bulk of the resources, while independent researchers are shoved
aside. </span></font><font size=1 color=navy face=Georgia><span
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