That’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000
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By , on September 23rd, 2010 2 comments   Oil Spills, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , ,  

The researchers used high-resolution video clips of flow from the Deepwater Horizon well to measure volume. Credit: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works That’s right, new work suggests BP’s estimates of oil flowing from the broken well were an order of magnitude off. With these revised estimates, the BP Gulf Spill is 10 . . . → Read More: That’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000

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Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
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By , on August 24th, 2010 5 comments   Industry & Government, Microbes, Oil Spills   , , , , ,  

The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in Science demonstrating that a deep-water oil plume did exist, conclusively, in Gulf of Mexico at the time the researchers sampled, approximately May-June. One of the interesting findings was that at . . . → Read More: Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf

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The Complex Science of Predicting Oil Plumes
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By , on June 30th, 2010 3 comments   Environmental Sciences, Gadgets & Gear, Geology, Oil Spills   , , , , ,  

Blowouts and the subsequent dispersion of oil and gas in deep and shallow water differ immensely. In shallower waters, expelled gas will contribute to the buoyancy of the plume, which quickly rises to the surface. The rising gas bubble plume and the water it traps govern the size and shape of the resultant slick. When . . . → Read More: The Complex Science of Predicting Oil Plumes

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The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
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By , on August 18th, 2009 One comment   Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature

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Submarine Volcano Erupts Off Tonga
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By , on March 19th, 2009 One comment   Geology   , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

[googlemap lat="-20.730428476781324" lng="-175.27862548828125" width="500px" height="300px" zoom="8" type="G_SATELLITE_MAP"]Tonga[/googlemap] From the Times Online…. Scientists are on their way to the site of a large undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga, sending columns of smoke and ash thousands of feet into the sky above the Pacific Ocean. The spectacular plumes are erupting from the . . . → Read More: Submarine Volcano Erupts Off Tonga

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