Dive Into Oil Spill Research
This is the first site at which scientists or even the public can easily access a compilation of available research data on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster with a few clicks of a mouse.
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Lankan Grad Developing Oil Spill Solution
Research conducted by the Complex Fluids and Nanomaterials Group at the University of Maryland (UMD), USA, in developing safe and efficient materials to clean oil spills has been making the news.
On the Move: University of West Florida
The University of West Florida Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation was recently awarded a grant totaling $231,000 by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
How the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Gave One Scientist New Direction
Corals are fascinating animals. Just like there would be no forests without trees, there would be no coral reefs without corals.
Five Years Later: The Future of Restoration and Research
The work to restore the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster is just beginning.
Gulf Resilient Five Years after Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Scientists at the Harte Research Institute (HRI) for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi are leading a historic effort to study the spill’s impact from the deepest waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the people who live on its shores.
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Five Years Later
Late on the night of April 20, 2010, methane gas blew out from a wellhead a mile below the Gulf of Mexico. At a pressure 150 times greater than air at the Earth’s surface, the gas shot up through a drilling riser to the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and exploded, killing 11 workers.
What We Still Don’t Know About Gulf Oil Spill
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and unleashed the largest marine oil spill in the nation’s history, we are still experiencing — yet only beginning to truly understand — its profound environmental and economic repercussions.
5 Years After Spill, Effects of Oil on Gulf Still Uncertain
Five years after BP oil disaster, Gulf’s health remains under scrutiny
The Significance of One Email: How Prepared Are We for the Next Major Oil Spill?
With the fifth anniversary of the spill today, everyone is asking me: Are we more prepared for the next spill? Perhaps the best answer to that question arrived a few weeks ago in a single email.