WASHINGTON - Scientists are still trying to account for what happened to all of the oil from the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, but they now know what happened to the even greater amounts of natural gas that gushed from the broken well. Bacteria ate just about all of it by August.
NEW ORLEANS -- Once a backwater in the world of oceanographic research, the Gulf of Mexico has suddenly become the site of a scientific gold rush, all because of the BP oil spill. The environmental disaster represents a once-in-a-generation research opportunity that has oceanographers salivating. There's big money -- $500 million from BP alone -- up for grabs. And for scientists who usually toil in near-obscurity, there's the prospect of lots of media attention.
When researchers were struggling to identify the forces that were tearing chunks off a massive Antarctic ice shelf two years ago, they had no idea the information they desperately needed was being collected by elephant seals diving a mile below the ocean's surface. Their life raft came in the form of Daniel Costa, a University of California Santa Cruz researcher who tags seals with satellite transmitters and provides important data to oceanographers mapping the sea floor and studying the thinning of the Antarctic's Wilkins Ice Shelf.
The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office requests public nominations of technical experts to form an SAB panel to review the Agency's Web-based Report on the Environment.
..., hydrologists, chemists, oceanographers and microbiologists with expertise in assessing th...
Ricketts is like a cult figure," says environmental historian Joseph Taylor. Scientists at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island have erected a small shrine to Ricketts, a glass-enclosed cabinet crammed with pickled seashore specimens collected by him along with his portrait. I've met park wardens, biologists, oceanographers and many others who profess, with zeal, Ed Ricketts as their hero. Joseph Campbell, renowned mythologist and a close friend of Ricketts, once toyed with the idea of writing a novel based on Ricketts as the "hero" archetype. "I've been an admirer of Ricketts for a long time," says Dr. John Pearse, professor emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Ed Ricketts was way ahead of people. It wasn't until the 1980s that s...
HONOLULU - The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that "urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property. But the devastating tidal surge predicted after Chile's magnitude 8.8-earthquake for areas far from the epicenter never materialized.
NEW ORLEANS - Once a backwater in the world of oceanographic research, the Gulf of Mexico has suddenly become the site of a scientific gold rush, all because of the BP oil spill. The environmental disaster represents a once-in-a-generation research opportunity that has oceanographers salivating. There's big money - $500 million from BP alone - up for grabs. And for scientists who usually toil in near-obscurity, there's the prospect of media attention.
I spent time recently in Naples, Fla., at the 'Imagine Solutions' conference (www.imaginesolutionsconference.com). 'Imagine Solutions' brought together roughly 40 thought leaders in diverse fields to present our ideas to an audience of some 600 community and business leaders who are, ostensibly, in a position to do something with them. The dark side of a parade of imagined solutions is that the problems at which the solutions are directed are on prominent display, and at a certain point, this gets a bit lugubrious. We face a truly daunting confluence of perils and in their midst, optimism at times seems in need of life support. Oceanographers spoke of our assault on the oceans, the depletion of fisheries and neglected mysteries of the deep. Economists highlighted not only our current fi...
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