Will Gulf science be compromised by politics?
I’ve officially arrived back in New Hampshire (freezing my tanned little arms off, btw) after my marathon sampling trip in the Gulf, and I’ve been…
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That’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000
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…
The Oil’s Impact On the Gulf
A recent article in New York Times indicates that the Gulf of Mexico avoided the worst of our predictions and recovery is already abound. Marsh…
Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!
Remember Dr. M’s recent disturbing post about the quelling of independent science in the Gulf? I can now officially announce that my lab was one…
Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
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…
Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??
As you know, we’ve completely solved the Gulf oil spill and we can all go back to dreaming about puppies and sunshine (note sarcasm). Not…
Oil Spill Update July 11, 2010
This one-year projection of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will ruin your day. Oil is now seeping in New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain and tarballs wash ashore in…
Flyover of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
An exclusive report on a fly over of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by visiting contributor Allie Wilkinson On July 3, I had the…
Oil Spill Update: July 1st 2010
72 days… Will crowdsourcing and money create a solution? X-Prize Announces $10m prize for oil spill solution Is there an inherent risk for accidents in complex…
Oil In Gulf’s Food Web
From Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press… Oil droplets have been found beneath the shells of tiny post-larval blue crabs drifting into Mississippi coastal marshes from offshore…