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Podcasts and Videos Share GoMRI Oil Spill Research with a Broader Audience
Posted on May 22, 2013Scientists conducting research to understand the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are increasingly using sights and sounds to share their explorations and discoveries. -
Direct Connections: CARTHE and DEEP-C Inspire Future Scientists
Posted on May 22, 2013Scientists conducting GoMRI-funded oil spill research take their mission regarding society seriously. -
Study Shows Bacteria Contributed to Consumption of 200,000 tons of Oil and Gas
Posted on May 17, 2013Scientists who tracked deep underwater oil and gas plumes after the Deepwater Horizon incident concluded that the respiration of dissolved and trapped hydrocarbons resulted in reduced dissolved oxygen concentrations from a bloom of hydrocarbon-eating bacteria. -
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
