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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Video on 09 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Tropical Storm Kicks up Gulf Tar Balls

Tropical Storm Lee pushed high surf into Gulf of Mexico beaches but not messy oil from the British Petroleum spill last year. And it also put predictions to the test. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year oil looming offshore has hardened and sunk to the seafloor where it has formed giant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Fish Ear Bones Hear Chemical Secrets of Water

Fish ear bones are just like tree rings. The otolith bone inside a fish’s ear records the creature’s growth. Micro slices of sliver-sized ear bones can give scientists clues to the chemistry of the water in which fish swim. They can measure carbon dioxide levels and one year after the Deepwater...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 04 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

BP Oil Spill: The Gulf of Mexico One Year Later

One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill scientists believe the health of the Gulf of Mexico is back to where it was before the massive environmental disaster. In a recent survey, most scientists agreed that the health of the Gulf is about 68 out of 100. That is almost in line with the pre-spill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Discoveries, Diseases, Earthquake, Environment, Genomics, Geology, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Space on 12 31st, 2010 | No Comments

2010 Science Roundup

On the last day of 2010, the final day of the last year in the first decade of the 21st Century, we bid farewell to another year. Let’s take a look back over the last 12 months through the eyes of science. First, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku looks back over the natural disasters that rocked the world...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics, Video on 08 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Say Toxic BP Oil Mix Sits on Gulf Floor and Floats Below the Surface

After one of their research vessels returned from the Gulf, University of South Florida scientists say they found significant amounts of toxic oil sitting on the Gulf floor – and it is killing sea life. Small oil droplets speckle the Gulf floor and are hard to detect. Best seen under ultraviolet...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Simulate BP Oil Spill Day 360

Simulation of BP Oil Spill, Day 360, courtesy of University of Hawaii University of Hawaii scientists Researchers Axel Timmermann and Fabian Schloesser have been trying to answer a question that few will even dare to ask. They want to how not if but when the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Scientists Study Gulf Oil Spill Impact on Marine Life

University of Florida’s Neil Hammerschlag is studying whether sharks along the Gulf Coast of Florida can sense oil and move away from it. Hurley the hammerhead shark disappeared from satellite tracking two days after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as researchers were studying migration patterns...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 13th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Replaces Oil Cap and Runs Pressure Tests to Stop Oil Leak

With a tight new cap freshly installed on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP planned gradual tests starting Tuesday to see if the device can stop oil from pouring into the sea for the first time in nearly three months. The next step will be to slowly close the valves on that cap to see if it...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Gushes Freely for Two Days

Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea. And BP isn’t convinced that putting the new Top Hat Number 10 cap on the leaking wellhead will solve the problem. If the new...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 07 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Capping the BP Oil Leak on the Horizon

The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the government official in charge of the crisis said Friday in some of the most encouraging news to come out of the Gulf in the two and half months since the disaster struck. After...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Inventions, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 06 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

BP Spins Kevin Costner Oil-Separating Centrifuge into Action

“I’ve been to all the oil spill conferences around he country and all I see are booms and the latest helicopter. But I’ve never seen one machine that deals with getting the oil out. That’s me.” — Kevin Costner Actor Kevin Costner was visibly frustrated when he testified...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics, Video on 06 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

BP Flow Rate Technical Panelist Says Scientists Need Data Not Speculation

Over the last few weeks, scientists — including those on the government’s Flow Rate Technical Panel — have been unable to pinpoint how many gallons of oil are flooding the Gulf of Mexico. Ira Leifer who is part of a 12-scientist panel guiding the Obama administration as it tries to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Politics, Video on 06 16th, 2010 | No Comments

President Obama Addresses Nation from the Oval Office About the BP Oil Spill

Full Transcript of President Obama’s speech, “A Faith in the Future that Sustains us as a People” President Obama addressed the nation last night, assuring all Americans that he is working hard, with scientists, engineers, oil company executives and 30,000 volunteers and aid workers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Health Concerns Rise Over Use of Oil Dispersant Corexit

Seven Louisiana fishermen reported getting sick after exposure to the oil dispersant that is being used to thin the oil slick on the Gulf of Mexico. Nalco, the company that makes Corexit, the dispersant used after the April 20 Horizon Deepwater oil spill, says it has faith in its product. It insists...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Geology, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 06 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Struggle To Narrow Oil Leak Estimate

British Petroleum’s oil leak is dumping an Exxon Valdez worth of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every 8-10 days, according to new estimates by scientists who are watching the black geyser a mile beneath the surface very closely. New estimates show the damaged well leaking twice as much oil as previously...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Oceanography, Video on 06 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Oceanographers Join the Oil Spill Fight with Robot Subs

An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute just returned from gathering important data about the gulf Oil spill as scientists begin to help figure out how much oil is continuing to leak day by day and what’s happening almost a mile below the surface of the...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Engineering, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 7th, 2010 | No Comments

BP Cap Collects Oil as Underwater Plumes are Mapped

BP has begun to have some success in closing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, CBC’s David Common reports Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said the newly installed wellhead cap is now containing about 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf. The new cap is slowing the leak, up from about...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Spill: BP Fails at Top Kill as Oil Continues to Flow

The White House warns that oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster will likely continue leaking until August after BP declares its ‘top kill’ operation a failure, the CBC’s David Common reports. Editor’s note: Why doesn’t a consortium of structural, ocean and even geo engineers...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 05 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Underwater Video Shows Oil Spewing into Gulf of Mexico

Five-thousand feet below the oily surface of the Gulf of Mexico a new vantage point at the site of the devastating oil spill shows the unending flow of crude live. Congressman Edwin Markey (D-MA) was tired of the little clips of video BP was releasing following the April 20 oil spill. So he started...

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