September 16, 2014 – Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

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Students and post-doctoral researchers from the University of Georgia, the University of North Carolina, the University of California and the University of Southern Mississippi collect water samples from the niskin bottles on the CTD rosette for methane and other geochemical analyses. Lead author Melitza Crespo-Medina is on the far bottom left. (Photo by Samantha Joye)

Study Identifies Highly-Efficient Methane-Eating Microbe Present after Oil Spill

September 16, 2014

From March-December 2010 during ten research cruises covering over 105,000 square kilometers, scientists documented the fate and dynamics of Deepwater Horizon methane emissions around the blowout site.