CARTHE: Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment

CARTHE is a research team dedicated to predicting the fate of oil released into our environment to help inform and guide response teams, thereby protecting and minimizing damage to human health, the economy, and the environment.

How CARTHE works

Explore this interactive graphic to discover how researchers are collaborating in one of the most important oceanographic projects of our time
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Study Shows that Floating Bamboo Plates Capture Strength of Small-Scale Ocean Currents

January 27, 2020 Researchers optically tracked 600 biodegradable bamboo plates floating in the Gulf of Mexico for 2.5 hours to better understand how small-scale currents (scales of minutes and meters) affect surface dispersion. Ten minutes after releasing the plates onto the water’s surface, the plates collected in narrow parallel convergence zones (known as windrows and […]

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Study Provides Insights into How Floating Material Moves on the Ocean

October 22, 2019 Scientist John Taylor with the University of Cambridge analyzed simulations of small-scale fronts (

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How Grad Student Bodner Uses Theoretical Math to Add Turbulence to Transport Predictions

September 10, 2019 Predicting where oil will go can be one of the most challenging aspects of marine oil spill response. Following Deepwater Horizon, research showed that strong currents capable of transporting oil often appear along ocean fronts (the interface between river like-water masses that have different temperatures, salinities, or densities). However, our limited understanding […]

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