{"id":683,"date":"2016-05-02T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:23:32","slug":"do-driftersdrift-cards-really-move-like-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/do-driftersdrift-cards-really-move-like-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Do drifters\/drift cards really move like oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHE recently took a field trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohmsett.com\/\">Ohmsett Oil Spill Response Research &amp; Renewable Energy Test Facility<\/a> in New Jersey. \u00a0The oil spill wave tank is 203 meters long and can hold 2.3 million gallons of saltwater.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the largest outdoor saltwater wave\/tow tank facility in North America and is the only facility where full-scale oil spill response equipment testing, research, and training can be conducted in a marine environment with oil under controlled environmental conditions (waves and\u00a0oil types). \u00a0http:\/\/www.ohmsett.com\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_685\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-685 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o-e1463771519708-1024x544.jpg\" alt=\"13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o\" width=\"690\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o-e1463771519708-1024x544.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o-e1463771519708-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o-e1463771519708-768x408.jpg 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13086914_1073698689343071_5998894627394151331_o-e1463771519708.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tamay Ozgokmen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CARTHE conducted several days worth of experiments to quantify how drifters move with respect to oil. \u00a0This was our first opportunity to directly compare our equipment to oil so we could see how similarly\u00a0the drifters, drift cards,\u00a0dye, and oil behave. \u00a0The good news is, its very close!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_687\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-687\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o\" width=\"350\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o-768x965.jpg 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o-815x1024.jpg 815w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13047844_1073698699343070_7197571087540223411_o.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Tamay Ozgokmen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Thank you to the Ohmsett staff as well as\u00a0Prof. Michel Boufadel, CARTHE co-principal investigator at New Jersey Institute of Technology, who helped arrange this opportunity.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-684 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o\" width=\"690\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o-1024x803.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o-768x602.jpg 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/13116046_1074435965936010_2154268141400040609_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHE recently took a field trip to the Ohmsett Oil Spill Response Research &amp; Renewable Energy Test Facility in New Jersey. \u00a0The oil spill wave tank is 203 meters long <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/do-driftersdrift-cards-really-move-like-oil\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,30],"tags":[49,14,51,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}