Everything we do in life presents choices, and every choice presents a risk. Some activities present a high and obvious risk, like skiing a black…
View More Sunday Spill Special: Seafood Safety, Part 1Tag: Deepwater Horizon
I just found oil in my core!
Breaking news from my lab bench this morning: I started processing our post-spill samples collected closest to the blown out Macondo well, and lo and…
View More I just found oil in my core!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…
View More 12.12.10 Oil Spill Roundup12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”
The headline says it all. That was one of the main points delivered on Thursday/Friday at Meeting #6 of the US National Oil Spill Commission.…
View More 12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”Latest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plume
This public press release from Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting just appeared in my inbox, offering the latest summary of oil fate in the Gulf. You…
View More Latest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plumeAnd the next Oil Spill series is….
….”The Science of Seafood: Should we trust food from the Gulf?” Stay tuned to DSN for the first installment, coming soon!
View More And the next Oil Spill series is….11.28.10 Oil Spill Roundup
As the publications roll out and the days roll on, we continue to learn more and more about the BP spill and its ongoing impacts.…
View More 11.28.10 Oil Spill RoundupOil Spill Commission, working paper #6
The Government released working paper #6 yesterday, documenting the interactions between BP officials and government officials as they scrambled to cap the Macondo Well during…
View More Oil Spill Commission, working paper #6Your Sunday fix of recent oil spill news
Since its Sunday (and many of you are probably lapsing into a post-brunch pancake-induced sugar coma), I am presenting another Sunday roundup of recent oil…
View More Your Sunday fix of recent oil spill newsOil hydrocarbons ingested by GOM plankton communities
A new study released today shows the first evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil entering planktonic food webs in the Gulf of Mexico (is anyone surprised? …
View More Oil hydrocarbons ingested by GOM plankton communities