Sampling Studies: Digging for Buried Data to Understand Oil Impacts
With buckets and shovels in hand, scientists have collected and are analyzing oil found in the sediments of Gulf coast beaches.
With buckets and shovels in hand, scientists have collected and are analyzing oil found in the sediments of Gulf coast beaches.
The City University of New York Graduate Physics Program – College of Staten Island (Department of Mathematics & Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics and Computational Science) seeks applications for a competitively awarded postdoctoral fellowship from highly qualified candidates interested in multi-scale, multi-phase modeling of turbulent transport in the ocean environment.
Why would scientists select a small marsh minnow to help them understand the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
Dr. Ian MacDonald with Florida State University (FSU) and Dr. Richard Snyder with the University of West Florida (UWF) have been leading a research team to track and identify oil in sediment and water samples since January 2011.