August 12, 2013 – Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

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After researchers retrieved oil-coated screens used to collect samples from surface sheens, each screen was sectioned into several pieces for analyses. Some were reserved for DNA extraction; others analyzed for drilling fluids and shared with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration for standard petrochemical analyses. (Photo by Christoph Aeppli, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Study Describes Use of Oil Fingerprinting to Identify Source of 2012 Gulf Sheen

August 12, 2013

Scientists used a novel fingerprinting technique to identify the source of oil sheens that appeared in late 2012 near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.