According to WNEG’s website, a scientific team funded by the National Science Foundation set sail on May 25, 2010 for a two-week survey of the damage from the continuing Deepwater oil spill. The team comprises scientists from University of Southern Mississippi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and University of California, Santa Barbara, and is led by Samantha Joye, PhD, of the University of Georgia. When Joye is not reviewing the gas chromatograph output or mapping underwater oil plumes, she blogs about the team’s work.
The blog describes what the team collected, reams of data that catalogs dissolved oxygen and methane concentrations, outlines the expansion of the underwater oil plumes and surface slicks, quantifies salinity, chlorophyll levels, and water temperature at various depths, and most importantly, documents the presence of CDOM’s,or colored dissolved organic matter—oil. Joye also notes the impotent crowd gathering on the surface of the sea, what she calls “the city of ships.”
She records the ugliness simply, without drama, and so when she offers us a moment of contrast—the ship breaks out of the slick into clear blue water while a pod of spinner dolphins dances off the bow—we see the tragedy fully illuminated.
Read this blog and see photos of the team working at:
http://gulfblog.uga.edu/
WNEG website, accessed 6/20/2010:
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
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