Smithsonian Catalogs Life Before The Gulf Spill (NPR News)

From NPR News:

Jonathan Coddington is the head of research and collections at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. He tells NPR's Guy Raz that those thousands of jars are an invaluable resource for scientists.

"It describes the way the Gulf was prior to the spill," Coddington says. "So all of the questions coming at us — about the effects of the spill, the effects it has on the economy, the effects it has on the environment — are going to need a comparison. So we know the way it is now; how was it prior to the spill?"

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