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Study Quantifies Dispersant Effects on Initial Oil Slick Breakup by Waves
Posted on September 26, 2019Scientists generated breaking waves in the presence of various dispersant and oil ratios (DOR) using a custom-built wave tank to investigate how subsurface oil droplets evolve in a turbulent environment. -
Attention Oil Spill Researchers! IOSC 2020 Scholarship Applications Now Being Accepted
Posted on September 24, 2019The International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) provides a vital forum for the oil industry to gather and discuss future challenges and opportunities with sound science, practical innovation, global research, and imagination. The IOSC 2020 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana May 11-14, 2020. -
![Oil-water interfaces, such as those formed by marine oil spills or natural ocean oil seeps, are teeming with bacterial activity. Some bacterial species in those interfaces form biofilms that help […]](https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/DROPPS_Scholar_Deng1_slider-125x125.jpg "Grad Student Deng Investigates How Marine Microbes Move When Oil is Present")
Grad Student Deng Investigates How Marine Microbes Move When Oil is Present
Posted on September 19, 2019Oil-water interfaces, such as those formed by marine oil spills or natural ocean oil seeps, are teeming with bacterial activity. Some bacterial species in those interfaces form biofilms that help […] -
Study Quantifies Limitations in Using Marker Genes to Predict Microbial Capabilities
Posted on September 17, 2019Scientists conducted the largest comparison to-date of publicly available sequenced bacterial genomes to provide the first in-depth look at using high-throughput marker genes to profile a microbial community’s functional capability. -
How Grad Student Bodner Uses Theoretical Math to Add Turbulence to Transport Predictions
Posted on September 10, 2019Predicting where oil will go can be one of the most challenging aspects of marine oil spill response. -
Study IDs Oil-Degrading and Mucus-Producing Microbes Linked to Marine Oil Snow Formation
Posted on September 5, 2019Scientists isolated bacteria from Gulf of Mexico surface waters and used them in microcosm experiments to identify those that simultaneously degrade oil and produce mucus-like materials (exopolymeric substances or EPS). -
Grad Student Sevigny Improves Meiofauna Genomic Analysis to Inform Oil Spill Recovery
Posted on September 3, 2019Meiofauna are microscopic marine organisms that live between grains of sand in ocean, coastal, river, and stream sediments and provide important services such as recycling organic material in the sediment that contribute to healthy marine ecosystems. -
![(From Newswise / September 2, 2019) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast […]](https://gulfresearchinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/GOMRIintheNews-125x125.png "Deepwater Horizon Oil Buried in Gulf Coast Beaches Could Take More Than 30 Years to Biodegrade")
Deepwater Horizon Oil Buried in Gulf Coast Beaches Could Take More Than 30 Years to Biodegrade
Posted on September 2, 2019(From Newswise / September 2, 2019) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast […] -
Microbial Genomic Synthesis Session at GOMOSES
Posted on August 29, 2019The leaders of the GoMRI Core Area 6 synthesis effort are pleased to announce Session 22, entitled Microbial Genomics to Improve Predictive Understanding of Disturbance in the Global Ocean System, at the 2020 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference. -
Eight-Year Study Quantifies How Oiling is a Continuing Stressor on the Marsh Ecosystem
Posted on August 29, 2019Scientists measured changes in oil quantity and quality in 1,200+ samples collected over eight years at locations that Deepwater Horizon affected – the Gulf of Mexico continental shelf, estuarine waters, and marsh sediments.
