Most people on board the ship don't have much down time to surf the internet. However, it's hard to miss the dozens of articles that started popping up last night about the new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study presents evidence about how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico. The primary site discussed in the article was first discovered during the Lophelia II 2010 Expedition - a multiyear project jointly funded by NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). That discovery spurred a number of follow-up research cruises funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA). Six of the paper's authors are associated with the ongoing Okeanos Explorer expedition. The full article is available at: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/23/1118029109.full.pdf (pdf, 1.1 MB) .