New publication pegs total DWH oil spill at 4.9-5.5 million bbls– Griffiths, S. 2012. Oil Release from Macondo Well MC252 Following the Deepwater Horizon Accident. Environ. Sci. Technol. DOI: 10.1021/es204569t (on-line at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es204569t) Read More
Category: Gulf Restoration – Archive
Archive folders hold news items > 1 year old. News related to Gulf of Mexico restoration following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (e.g., penalties, settlements, programs).
Deep coral impacts
Investigators funded by NOAA, BOEM, USGS, Census of Marine Life and NSF find impacts of DWH oil spill on deep sea coral ecosystems near the well site– news at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123555&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click; publication at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/23/1118029109.full.pdf+html?sid=97130868-7d9b-440f-8d04-618c0157813c. Read More
March recovery
Dauphin Island Sea Lab leads study on microbes that actively degrade oil spill in marshes– http://www.springerlink.com/content/e46g688n71043684/. Read More
Wetlands recovery
Louisiana State University investigators find not all marsh grass recovers the same– Qianxin Lin and Irving A. Mendelssohn. 2012. “Impacts and Recovery of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Vegetative Structure and Function of Coastal Salt Marsh in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.” Environ. Sci. Technol. Online at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203552p. Read More
DWH settlement
MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, 10% owner of the lease for the Macondo Well, settles for $90M for Deepwater Horizon oil spill– http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/February/12-ag-231.html Read More