Two Texas groups are among the first to receive grants from BP’s Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to study how last year’s massive oil spill impacted the environment and to develop methods to better respond to future spills.
A research group led by the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science was awarded an $11 million grant to study the ecological impacts of last year’s gulf oil spill and the unprecedented use of dispersants.
University of West Florida researchers will participate in two major studies on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem.
A group of institutions led by the University of Texas’ Marine Sciences Institute has been awarded a grant to research how oil spills disperse in the Gulf of Mexico.
The nation will be looking to Florida State University and its expertise in the marine sciences as it studies the long-term after effects and changes in the Gulf of Mexico following last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
On Tuesday, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Research Board, charged with administering BP’s commitment, announced that eight research consortia will share $112.5 million of that $500 million over the next three years.
Grant will support research to understand how oil spills disperse in the Gulf of Mexico, and how the oil affects the ecology of the Gulf
A consortium of U.S. universities and research institutions will get $20 million to study long-term effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, officials said.
USF’s College of Marine Science announced today it’s getting another $11 million to do research on the effects of the spill on the ecology of the Gulf. Much of the research will focus on the effects of dispersants used to keep the oil off Gulf beaches.
Three Florida universities are receiving grants to lead research groups studying last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.