Understanding the next oil spill
Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment
WSJ :: Photo Journal By Chelsea Matiash Waterlust, a nonprofit group founded by marine science students Patrick Rynne, Fiona Graham and Jennah Caster, uses photography and multimedia to document and explore water-centric stories, from science to sport. A passion for all things aquatic is paramount to the team, whose ventures in photography, social media and […]
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EOS, 8 April 2014 by COLIN SCHULTZ, Writer, and JOANNA WENDEL, Staff Writer During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists’ understanding of the meso- scale surface circulation patterns of the Gulf of Mexico became a topic of great impor- tance. With the oil slick growing, disaster response teams needed to know where to deploy. […]
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The Smithsonian Ocean Portal posted a story on the GoMRI-funded CARTHE project, a multi-year research effort to study how the ocean moves. The article describes how CARTHE scientists use drifters to collect real-time data about surface and below-surface currents from ship to shore Gulf waters. The data are being used right now to improve prediction […]
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