Soon after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, Annette Engel, associate professor in earth and planetary sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, grabbed all the lab materials she could spare and headed down to the Louisiana coast.
A professor with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William & Mary is part of a nationwide team that has been awarded a three-year $12 million grant to study the effects of the oil spill last year in the Gulf of Mexico.
The University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi will lead one of eight large research teams participating in a $112.5 million project to learn how the Gulf of Mexico has fared since the 2010 BP oil spill.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among institutions participating in a research team that the University of Mississippi and the University of Southern Mississippi are leading in a $112.5 million project to learn how the Gulf of Mexico has fared since the 2010 BP oil spill.
Texas A&M Corpus Christi is one of just a handful of universities across the nation to receive funding for research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
A Texas A&M-led team recently received a $14.4 million grant to study petroleum fluids that have erupted in the ocean’s depths.
Lead investigator Tamay Özgökmen heads team, more than $15 million allocated to project by GoMRI
Florida’s universities have received $20 million to study the long-term effects of last year’s BP Gulf Coast oil spill disaster.
Researchers at Connecticut College in New London will study the impact last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill on coastal ecosystems, as part of a $112.5 million research consortia formed to study the BP oil spill.
Texas A&M University researchers in the College of Geosciences and the Dwight Look College of Engineering are the lead investigators in a $14.4 million project that will investigate the transport and eventual fate of petroleum fluids that have erupted at depth, such as those that resulted from the Deepwater Horizon spill last year.