UNOLS Vessel Activities in Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill


F.G. Walton Smith in the New York Times (May 28, 2010)
F.G. Walton Smith on CBS News (May 29, 2010)
F.G. Walton Smith on Good Morning America
(June 2, 2010)
Newsweek: What the Spill will Kill (June 6, 2010)
Texas A&M Scientists Return from 10 Day Expedition to the Gulf (June 22, 2010)
Research Mission Studies Oil Spill Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and Mass Spectrometry (June 22, 2010)
MSNBC: Science and Oil in the Gulf (June 23, 2010)
Cape Hatteras on BBC World Service Programmes - Discovery (June 23, 2010)
Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Spill (Part 1) (June 25, 2010)
Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Spill (Part 2) (June 25, 2010)
Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Spill (Part 3) (June 25, 2010)
Black and Blue: Beneath the Gulf Oil Spill (Part 4) (June 25, 2010)
Methane Spilling into Gulf also Threatens Ecosystem (June 29, 2010)

UNOLS cruises to the Gulf of Mexico:

Ship
Dates
 
Title
PI
F.G. Walton Smith
5/21/10-6/11/10
  Rapid Response Gulf of Mexico
Samantha B. Joye
   
Cape Hatteras
6/11/10-6/20/10
  RAPID: The effect of methane laden oil on climate and dissolved oxygen: using the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as an analog for clathrate decomposition and seeping methane
John D. Kessler
   
Endeavor
6/17/10-6/30/10
  Mapping Subsurface Hydrocarbon Plume Distribution and Structure near MC Block 252
Richard Camilli
   
Cape Hatteras
6/21/10-6/25/10
  Rapid Response in the Gulf of Mexico: Sediment Trap Investigations.
Christopher German

 

Upcoming UNOLS cruises to the Gulf of Mexico:

Ship
Dates
 
Title
PI
Pelican
9/1/10-9/7/10
 

RAPID Collaborative Proposal: Spatially-explicit, High-resolution Mapping and Modeling to Quantify Hypoxia and Oil Effects on the Living Resources of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Mike Roman
   
Cape Hatteras
10/11/10-10/20/10
  Ecological Crisis in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Understanding the Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Response to the Deepwater Horizon Spill
Kevin Yeager
   
Atlantis
12/4/10-12/11/10
  COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Acute response of benthic hard bottom communities to oil exposure in the deep Gulf of Mexico
Charles Fisher

 

 

 
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