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Health Defects Found in Fish Exposed to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Posted on May 14, 2013Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -
Francisco Hung Receives NSF Career Award
Posted on May 13, 2013The GoMRI community congratulates one of our own – Dr. Francisco Hung, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University – as a recipient of the prestigious NSF Career Award. -
Study: Dispersants Can Move Hydrocarbons Faster and Deeper into Gulf Sand
Posted on May 10, 2013Scientists studying the fate of oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident published their findings in the November 2012 edition of Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE): Dispersants as used in response to the MC252-spill lead to higher mobility of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in oil-contaminated Gulf of Mexico sand. -
A Closer Look at Oil and Water
Posted on May 8, 2013Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, much has been written – in the popular press as well as scientific journals – regarding the potential impact the large volume of oil might have on the flora and fauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico. -
Deepwater Disaster Three Years On
Posted on May 3, 2013Just three years ago, the DeepWater Horizon oil spill gushed 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. -
A New Flavor of Dispersant
Posted on April 30, 2013Often misunderstood by the public, dispersants are the single biggest weapon in the arsenal of those combating an oil spill. -
Tests Indicate Decline in Coastal Marsh Insects Traced to BP Oil Spill
Posted on April 29, 2013Preliminary results from field work and lab tests indicate two oil components -- naphthalene and methylnaphthlane -- are at least partly responsible for declines in insect populations in coastal marshes affected by the 2010 BP oil spill -
By Land and Not By Sea: Flying, Creeping, Crawling Critters in Marshes Help Track Oil Impact
Posted on April 29, 2013Birds, crickets, ants, and other insects that live in Louisiana wetlands are helping researchers determine impacts to marsh life from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. -
Study Shows Oil Promoted Formation of a Different Kind of Marine Snow
Posted on April 24, 2013Scientists studying oil-contaminated surface waters near the well-head site immediately after the Deepwater Horizon incident published their findings in the July 2012 edition of Environmental Research Letters -
Study Finds Coastal Alabama Marine Life Returns to Pre-Spill Numbers
Posted on April 22, 2013Biologists studying the impacts of oil on marine species living in coastal Alabama salt marshes published their results in the March 2013 edition of the Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE)
