Transocean Has Big Brass Balls
In what will surely take the 2011 Audacity Award Transocean Ltd. made a statement Friday that it had its “best year in safety performance.” O’ no they…
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A 21st century view of Marine Biology
So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…
Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead…
No S*&%t Sherlock, dispersants DON’T degrade quickly
Another disturbing paper about the BP oil spill was published this week. The new study from Wood’s Hole researchers shows lingering traces of dispersant in…
Live Blogging/Tweeting Our Changing Oceans Conference
I’m in ice-covered DC this week to attend the 11th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment where the focus is Our Changing Oceans.…
1.9.2011 Sunday Spill Roundup: Advance Preview of Oil Spill Commision Report
“A blowout in deepwater was not a statistical inevitability.” An eloquent and succinct line from the National Oil Spill Commission’s Report on the Deepwater Horizon…
Oil Spill Blame For Everyone!
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill just released a key chapter from their final report. Long story short…everyone is to blame. The…
1.2.2011 New year, same old oil spill
Well its 2011, and now we’ll have to talk about the Deepwater Horizon disaster as last year’s oil spill. Unfortunately, we can’t make a New…
12.26.10 A tough Christmas in the Gulf (Sunday Spill Roundup)
In lieu of the holiday weekend, there’s only one story I want to draw attention to–months after the well was capped, the post-spill economic hardships…
12.12.10 Oil Spill Roundup
There seem to be three themes at the forefront of the ongoing BP saga this week: Seafloor, Seafood, and Spillage. Ken Halanych (one of the…