Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading

Steve Murawski answers questions from the audience about seafood safety in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon spill.

The annual Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading hosts about 50 authors each year on the campus of USF-St. Petersburg to give talks, sign books, and talk to the public about their selected works. For the 2019 Festival, C-IMAGE participated while highlighting the two-volume series Deep Oil Spills – Facts, Fate, and Effects and Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills – Fighting the Next War. The audience was able to ask questions after a brief synopsis given by Steve Murawski. Most questions centered about fish health and seafood safety, and whether or not dispersants caused more environmental harm than initially considered.