Brookfield Zoo Hosting Documentary Screening and Expert Panel Discussion on Impact to Marine Life after Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Dispatches from the Gulf 2: Research *Innovation* Discovery

Film begins at 7:00 p.m. followed immediately by a panel discussion at 8:00.

Price: $16 per person

Location: Discovery Center, Savannah Room

Parking: Discovery Center Lot

This one-hour documentary hosted and narrated by Matt Damon invites audiences to discover the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster through the eyes of a cadre of scientists working together to better understand and mitigate the fall-out from the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. This presentation includes a screening of Dispatches from the Gulf 2 followed by a panel discussion of the film by six Marine Mammal experts. Dispatches from the Gulf 2 shares remarkable stories from the scientific mission to study the continuing impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastation. The film features post-spill issues such as: Why are so many bottlenose dolphins dying? Why haven’t Louisiana’s oysters fully recovered? What are the long-term health effects on giant creatures like the six-gill shark? Is it possible to forecast where and when oil will go after a deep ocean spill?

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