Sentences with phrase «locate oil spills»

Within environmental science, the active particles could be compared to targeted robots that can locate oil spills and then release chemicals to break down any contamination.

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Modern geographers and cartographers are involved in diverse projects: tracking fleets of vehicles or products, helping customers locate a Dunkin' Donuts, modeling environmental scenarios such as oil spills, and studying the spread of disease.

It also gives scientists the exact geographic points where oil from the spill was located, so researchers can go to the Gulf floor and explore the area to see if there has been any environmental effect.»

«There is a perception that the spills impacts were largely contained to the northern Gulf of Mexico, because that is where the oil remained,» said study's lead author Nathan Putman, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies located at the UM Rosenstiel School.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

After burning my paws as usual and creating smoke signals after spilling oil on the hot cats, I was a touch nervous when I couldn't locate any of the shiny stuff on the dipstick.

So I've wondered if hair cutteries saved their hair clippings and this was collected and prepared for eventual oil spills in centrally located places that could transport these supplies along with equipment to oil spills, whether that would be a good idea.

The AGM comes less than two weeks after Shell spilled more than 88,000 gallons of oil from a group of four underwater oil wells located some 97 miles south of Port Fourchon in Louisiana and creating a 13 mile - wide slick on the water's surface.

The move to restore Ogoniland, located in southern Nigeria and home to more than 800,000 people, comes a year and a half after Shell agreed to an $ 84 million settlement with residents for two massive oil spills in 2008 and 2009.

The complex process of locating and plugging the underground leak has drawn comparisons to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that continued for months in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»

The dwarf seahorse, which resides in seagrass located throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean, is threatened with extinction from pollution caused by the Gulf oil spill disaster.