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Peter Vidito

Techno-Sponge "ShamWows" Oil Spills (Popular Mechanics) - 0 views

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    "At the National Science Foundation, Paul Edmiston is handed a refreshment-a bright orange bottle of motor oil. Undaunted, the chemical engineer from the College of Wooster proceeds to make himself a drink. Here's how Edmiston cheats death-and what it could mean for oil-spill cleanup technology."
Julia Huggins

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Deepwater Horizon Library - 0 views

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    For those interested in the gulf oil spill: "Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made public a new website, the NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library. The site contains a treasure trove of information relating to the oil disaster in the gulf oil disaster. This includes reports on the incident itself, scientific reports on the wildlife affected, and a detailed history of the response and cleanup efforts undertaken by governments, private companies, and individuals. It also describes ongoing efforts to rebuild the coast and the Gulf ecosystem."
Micah Leinbach

Where did the oil spill's methane go? - 0 views

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    Some researches are claiming that a lot of methane disappeared very quickly after the oil spill. Their hypothesis? Bacteria did it. While clearly controversial, it is an impressive testement to ecosystems ability to respond to surprises (though hardly a reliable one). Could it also lend some new ideas to efforts to figure out how to deal with the next big oil spill? While I don't pretend to know whether or not its a good idea, one critic mentioned that other limiting factors may have inhibited population growth of presumably beneficial bacteria. Could intentional actions towards removing those limiting factors in other spills allow bacteria to consume methane more rapidly? And if we pluck that strand, what would we find it connected to? Of course, that all depends on the accuracy of the study.
Jim Proctor

Science and the Gulf - Editorial - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    What if it's true that the effects of the BP oil spill are far less serious than originally predicted?  It would not mean that nothing bad happened at all, nor that no changes are needed to business as usual , but maybe we need to reconsider the perennial sky-is-falling rhetoric of environmentalism.
Peter Vidito

BP Oil Spill: Has Environmental Damage Been Exaggerated? - 2 views

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    Time article looks at some metrics in an attempt to quantify the relative extent of the BP spill. (Peter Vidito, Summer 2010)
falorna amaia

BP Spills Coffee - 0 views

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    British Petroleum when the oil got spilled in the ocean. Note: it is also just a practice of using this Diigo website
Kristina Chyn

Gulf's Complexity and Resilience Seen in Studies of Oil Spill - 0 views

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    Although it has been almost a year since the Horizon/ BP oil spill began, this article offers hope and summary of the effects on the Gulf ecosystem.
Kelsey White-Davis

Baby dolphin die-off in Gulf: Cold water, not oil spill, the culprit? - 0 views

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    This misleading title does not represent the argument of the author, who explores the possibility that 2011's record snowfalls and the water conditions caused by the oil spill have caused significant die off of baby dolphins in the Gulf.
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