Oil Spill Blogs

http://gulfblog.uga.edu/

This Gulf Oil Blog is sponsored by the University of Georgia – Atlanta Department of Marine Sciences, Dr. Samantha Joye, a professor of marine science at UGA, has been writing about efforts to clean up the Gulf oil spill and the severity of the problem. Her last few posts have been answering many questions that came to her e-mail, which is posted on the blog for that purpose. Most of the questions are fairly academic – I did not understand what they all meant. So I think this blog would be a good resource for other scientists. She posts regularly and also includes pictures sometimes. Here is article about the blog: http://www.wneg32.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3190:uga-scientists-blog-oil-spill-research&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18


http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/06/the_worst_oil_spill_in_us_hist.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink

On Science Blogs, a scientist (username “GrrlScientist”) disputes the claim that the current oil spill is the worst in U.S. history. She claims that a 1910 oil spill from California is the worst and includes a video from CNN about this spill. She has received a couple of comments on her post.

http://scienceblogs.com/dotphysics/2010/05/oil_spill_estimation.php

Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University. His blog, Dot Physics, looks at different issues in physics. This particular post is aimed at how to estimate the flow of oil into the Gulf. He starts with a video of the underwater oil spill, then makes detailed calculations that I don’t follow to come up with an estimate of how much oil is leaking into the ocean. This is the only post I found where he talked about the Gulf Oil Spill.