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GRIIDC (Gulf science data repository)
The data repository for Gulf of Mexico research at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, built on the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative's archive; free to download, each dataset under its own DOI.
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GRIIDC, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative, keeps the data from research on the Gulf's coasts and open water.1,2 It sits at the Harte Research Institute of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and the old Gulf Research Initiative address now leads to it.1,3 Searching and downloading are free. Groups that want to store data there pay a fee.1
Each dataset has its own DOI, which makes it citable down to a single cruise.2 The 2026 study of the Gulf's midwater collapse lists 27 of them: raw echosounder recordings, the logs of the net's sensors, species counts with weights and measurements for each cruise from 2015 to 2023, and the genetic sequences.2 Anyone building a model of the Gulf after an oil spill can test it against those records.
- homepage
- https://www.griidc.org/
- coverage
- the Gulf of Mexico region, coastal and marine
- cadence
- datasets added as research groups deposit them
- access
- free search and download at data.griidc.org/search; storing data there costs a fee
- format
- varies by dataset (NetCDF, spreadsheets and instrument files among them)
- cost
- free to download
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PNAS study, October 2026: thirteen years of nets, echosounders and genetics in the Gulf of Mexico found fish, krill and squid down 60 to 85% after the Deepwater Horizon spill, with no recovery.
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Sixteen years after the spill, the fish, krill and squid of the Gulf's open water are still 60 to 85% below their 2011 numbers, and the whales that eat them are down too. Is it recovering, and what would help?
Tags: Gulf of Mexico, ocean data, oil spill, repository, DOI