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Citizen Science More Than a Century Later: Ordinary People Go Online to Track Gulf Oil Spill
December 10, 2012 — Researchers report on a new form of "citizen science," concluding that it can help assess health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The researcher studied ... > full story -
Gulf Oil Spill: Oil-Dispersing Chemicals Had Little Effect on Oil Surfacing, According to New Study
December 4, 2012 — A new study examined the effects of the use of unprecedented quantities of synthetic dispersants on the distribution of an oil mass in the water column. Scientists developed and tested models to show ... > full story -
Research, Response for Future Oil Spills: Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon
December 3, 2012 — A special collection of articles about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill provides the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the science used in the unprecedented response effort by the ... > full story -
Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes 2010 Spill 52-Times More Toxic; Mixing Oil With Dispersant Increased Toxicity to Ecosystems
November 30, 2012 — If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up ... > full story -
Plants' Exposure to Light Influences Organic Weed Control Methods
November 15, 2012 — The popularity of organic foods and products continues to climb, creating greater demand for organic agriculture. Effective natural alternatives to synthetic chemical weed and pest management are ... > full story -
NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill
October 26, 2012 — Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in ... > full story -
Combination of Gulf Oil and Dispersant Spell Potential Trouble for Gut Microbes
October 23, 2012 — In a new study, researchers examined whether crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the dispersant used on it, or a combination of the two might affect the microbes of the human ... > full story -
Engineers to Design Affordable CO2 Thickener to Augment Oil Extraction
October 16, 2012 — Crude oil extraction could be improved significantly and accessible domestic oil reserves could be expanded with an economical CO2 thickener being developed by ... > full story -
Exposure to Fuel from Prestige Tanker Oil Spill Causes Short-Term Damage to Rat DNA, Spanish Study Finds
October 15, 2012 — An experiment carried out on rodents exposed to fuel similar to that of the Prestige tanker oil spill -- which took place nearly a decade ago and caused one of Spain's largest ecological disasters -- ... > full story -
A Complete Solution for Oil-Spill Cleanup
October 3, 2012 — Scientists are describing what may be a "complete solution" to cleaning up oil spills -- a super-absorbent material that sops up 40 times its own weight in oil and then can be shipped to an oil ... > full story
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