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Tag: Deepwater Horizon

Mining

I want to meet the legend who painted these

Holly Bik September 21, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizonGulf of MexcioOil Spill

I spotted these kick-ass signs on the side of the road yesterday in Grand Isle, LA (the community profiled in Sunday’s Times-Picayune Article).  Whoever took…

View More I want to meet the legend who painted these
Oil Spills

Oil on beaches “doesn’t stay gone”

Holly Bik September 19, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizonGulf of MexicoOil Spill

Seeing as I seem to be living, eating and breathing this Gulf Oil Spill (figuratively, I hope, although the proximate air of New Orleans air…

View More Oil on beaches “doesn’t stay gone”
Oil Spills

Honest, its not our fault!

Holly Bik September 14, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizonOil Spill

Yee-haw, my Gulf trip has officially begun with my visit to the University of San Antonio, Texas!  I am infinitely happy to be sitting down…

View More Honest, its not our fault!
Conservation & Environment Expeditions Oil Spills Organisms Uncategorized

Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!

Holly Bik September 6, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizonGeneticsGulf of MexicoMeiofaunaOil Spillroad triptwitter

Remember Dr. M’s recent disturbing post about the quelling of independent science in the Gulf?  I can now officially announce that my lab was one…

View More Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!
Conservation & Environment Oil Spills Uncategorized

Dispersants! Part III: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?

Holly Bik September 1, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizondispersantsOil SpillRB Editor's Selection

Promoting microbial degradation of oil has been one of the main arguments in favor of dispersant use.  Interestingly, the PWSRCAC review (covering literature from 1997-2008)…

View More Dispersants! Part III: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?
Conservation & Environment Oil Spills Uncategorized

Dispersants! Part II: Toxicity

Holly Bik August 23, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizondispersantsOil SpillRB Editor's Selection

Part II:  How toxic are dispersants? This, I suppose, is the million-dollar question.  The EPA has continually insisted that the actual dispersants is less toxic…

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Conservation & Environment Oil Spills

Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains.

Holly Bik August 21, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizondispersantsOil SpillRB Editor's Selection

When I don’t know enough about a subject, I tend to Google and data-mine—obsessively.  So it has become with dispersants.  In the wake of oil…

View More Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains.
Oil Spills

Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf

Dr. M August 19, 2010 Deepwater HorizonGulf of MexicoHydrocarbonsMethane Seepmicrobialoil plumeOil SpilloxygenpetroleumWoods Hole Oceanographic Institute

BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico.  The very oil plume both predicted by models published in…

View More Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
Conservation & Environment Oil Spills

Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??

Holly Bik August 17, 2010 BPDeepwater HorizonGovernmentGulf of MexicoOil Spill

As you know, we’ve completely solved the Gulf oil spill and we can all go back to dreaming about puppies and sunshine (note sarcasm).  Not…

View More Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??
Conservation & Environment Oil Spills

“Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birds

Holly Bik August 4, 2010 BPDecompositionDeepwater HorizonGulf of MexicoMicrobesOil Spill

Don’t be fooled by that fluffy, optimistic statistic you’re hearing all over the news this morning. The government is proclaiming that a whopping 75% of…

View More “Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birds

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