AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and is an international non-profit organization “dedication to advancing science for the benefit of all people.” According to AAAS, “These individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward…
The full conference report from the 2015 Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference can be downloaded here.
Years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists around the Gulf of Mexico are still working to understand the effects that it had on the area’s ecosystem. These efforts include investigations zeroing in on impacts to the Gulf’s fish species.…
Steve Newborn of WUSF radio (NPR affiliate for Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota) travelled to Sarasota on Friday, Nov. 6, to learn about a few different parts of the C-IMAGE research happening at the Mote Aquacutlure Park. He spent the…
The Deepwater Horizon blowout in April, 2010, represented the largest accidental marine oil spill and the largest release of chemical dispersants into the environment. While dispersant application may provide numerous benefits to oil spill response efforts, the impacts of dispersants…
Satellite images of reflected sunlight have been used to detect and monitor oil spills in oceans. However, such a capacity is often hindered by the image noise due to either a low signal-to-noise ratio or other image features such as…
A two-dimensional (2-D) ecosystem model, set within the De Soto Canyon ecotone of the Northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) and driven by 3-D flow fields from decoupled water and air circulation models, explores the daily food web and sedimentary consequences,…
When a crew of oil spill researchers embarked on a 15-day expedition into the northern Gulf of Mexico, a routine voyage to study impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was expected. These cruise exceeded topped these expectations with findings…
C-IMAGE researchers on the Weatherbird II get ready for setting the longline for fish collection With thirteen scientists aboard, the R/V Weatherbird fired up its engines earlier this month at the USF College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg,…
A recent publication from Wageningen University in the Netherlands performed a meta-analysis of large oil spills to determine if a MOSSFA brought oil to the sea floor in other oil spills. During Deepwater Horizon, 9.1% of oil from the well…
