“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…
View More 1.9.2011 Sunday Spill Roundup: Advance Preview of Oil Spill Commision ReportTag: Gulf of Mexico
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…
View More 1.2.2011 New year, same old oil spillOil Companies’ New Deep-Sea Inspection Crew
It appears that the oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico have found fresh, new expertise in deep-sea rig inspection enlisting the help of sperm…
View More Oil Companies’ New Deep-Sea Inspection Crew12.26.10 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…
View More 12.26.10 A tough Christmas in the Gulf (Sunday Spill Roundup)Seafood Safety, Part 2a: ‘safe’ criteria, PAHs
What criteria makes Gulf seafood “safe to eat”? In part 2, we’re geting down to the nitty gritty: what guidelines and criteria are the FDA…
View More Seafood Safety, Part 2a: ‘safe’ criteria, PAHsSunday Spill Special: Seafood Safety, Part 1
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 1I 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 plume