Sentences with phrase «oil spill research»

This report identifies key oil spill research priorities, critical data and monitoring needs, mitigation strategies, and important operational and logistical issues.

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But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

On the other side of the ledger, an oil spill in Burrard Inlet would put at risk industries, including tourism, real estate and agriculture, that together employ over 200,000 people, according to Vancouver - based CRED (Conversations for Responsible Economic Development), a non-profit research and advocacy group.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

Massive subsurface oil plumes have been reported from the Deepwater Horizon spill by the research vessel Pelican, including one up to 90 metres thick that extends for 16 kilometres by 4.8 kilometres.

At tests at a giant seawater tank in New Jersey called Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, the Oleo Sponge successfully collected diesel and crude oil from both below and on the water surfaOil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, the Oleo Sponge successfully collected diesel and crude oil from both below and on the water surfaoil from both below and on the water surface.

Each finalist team had about six weeks to complete their systems and get them to the US National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility (OHMSETT) in Leonardo, New Jersey, for controlled trials in July and August this year.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

Leading this research, Dr Katya Popova, from the National Oceanography Centre, said «Oil spills can have a devastating effect on the marine environment and on coastal communities.

But the subtle, long - term effects of even small amounts of spilled oil can be devastating as well, according to research published in the 6 June issue of Nature.

Hazen's work on the oil spill sprang from techniques developed as part of BP's $ 500 million grant to the Energy Biosciences Institute — a research and development joint effort between LBNL, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois — Urbana - Champaign.

The spill also had a galvanizing effect on lawmakers who passed the federal 1990 Oil Pollution Act to help stave off a repeat of the disaster by increasing oversight, stiffening penalties, mandating contingency planning, and creating new research programs.

For 25 years, methodical research by scientists has investigated the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 on Alaskan communities and ecosystems.

A comprehensive scientific report released by The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has concluded that there are still critical research gaps hampering efforts to both assess the environmental impacts of crude oil spills and to effectively remediate them.

It recommends prioritized research on the chemistry, properties and spill behavior of various types of crude oil, from oil sands bitumen, to diluted bitumen, to other unconventional oils.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first in soap research that could lead to better control of cleanup chemicals in situations like aquatic oil spills.

According to Scott Fields of the USCG Research and Development Center «in - situ burning is already a very successful process, but we want to improve the air quality for our first responders who are engaged in oil spill cleanup.»

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

Ocean scientists got their first taste of how gliders could help with their research last summer, following BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

«Once the oil, because of high tides or high winds, gets into the coastal wetland, it gets trapped in the sediment,» notes Héctor M. Guzmán of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, who studied the effects of the 1986 spill off Panama.

The Australian Research Council supported the development of the boron nitride nanosheets, because, according to Chen, current methods of cleaning up oil spills are inefficient and unsophisticated — taking too long and causing ongoing and expensive damage.

Crude oil toxicity continued to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species for at least more than a year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, scientist.

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, says a new report from the National Research Council.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, a panel convened by the National Research Council (NRC) declares in a report released today.

«It is possible to imagine that even smaller oil spills than I have in my research can lead to small heart damages.

Even in the absence of oil and gas exploration, the Arctic's rapidly intensifying traffic — whether from barges, research ships, oil tankers, or passenger cruises — makes oil spills increasingly likely.

Texas OneGulf was established in January 2015 as a Texas Center of Excellence after the Deepwater Horizon disaster to advance research into ongoing impacts from the oil spill and other long - term issues that threaten the health and sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico.

DISPATCHES FROM THE GULF 2: Research * Innovation * Discovery — Dir: Hal Weiner Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastation.

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Also in Latin America, the UC Davis Students for One Health have established an evidence - based, interdisciplinary community health project and research platform in Nicaragua, where students travel annually and the Oiled Wildlife Care Network has formed a partnership in Ensenada, Mexico, where they are training and educating a team for oil spill response and wildlife rehabilitation.

Her recent publications include works on birds exposed to oil spills, research on sharks and spiny dogfish, and accumulation of rodenticides in red - tailed hawks.

Denver — Having already funded research on the health of dolphins affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund will now help the rare saiga antelope in Kazakhstan.

Morris Animal Foundation is currently working with wildlife scientists to determine needs for wildlife health research that will result from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and is prepared to grant money to research the long - term effects a disaster such as this could cause to native and endangered wildlife.

She has also responded to a handful of oil spills as a previous member of the Louisiana State Animal Response Team and Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Oil Spill Response Teoil spills as a previous member of the Louisiana State Animal Response Team and Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Oil Spill Response TeOil Spill Response Team.

Members of this unit are tasked with conducting the scientific duties of normal EPA divers (such as data collection and research) while in potentially hazardous conditions, such as at the sites of oil spills.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

This is particularly critical in the case of oil spills, where a full clean - up is virtually impossible if decontamination efforts don't start immediately,» said Jaime Lloret from the UPV's Research Institute for Integrated Management of Coastal Areas.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.

Two researchers describe their research on the fate of massive methane releases from the Gulf oil spill during the summer and fall of 2010.

«The dispersant chemicals used to clean up oil spills have the unintended effect of transforming crude oil into a toxic mist able to travel for miles and penetrate deep into human lungs, new research has found.»

The 2012 budget cut funding for the measure of industrial emissions, closed an oil spill monitoring facility in British Columbia and a global water quality monitoring centre in Ontario, slashed funding for atmospheric research — resulting, among other things, in the partial closure of a vital research station in the High Arctic — and killed the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, which had been created by the Mulroney government.

One, on the effects of oil spills into Canadian marine waters released in 2015 by an expert panel of the Royal Society of Canada, concluded that more research is required «to better understand the environmental impact of spilled crude oil in high - risk and poorly understood areas, such as Arctic waters, the deep ocean and shores or inland rivers and wetlands.»

«Canada has already contributed to developing a significant body of work to study oil spill behaviour and recovery technologies, through extensive research conducted in the public domain by some 50 scientists, technologists, chemists and engineers in four major programs, and peer reviewed domestically and internationally.»

«The question is why we should continue this exemption given that it's clear tar sands oil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean eneroil is more likely to spill because it's more corrosive... and more and more tar sands is coming into the U.S.,» said Lorne Stockman, research director at Oil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean enerOil Change International, an advocacy group that supports clean energy.

It's been over 20 years since the Exxon Valdez ran into a reef and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, but according to new research published in Nature Geoscience about 20,000 gallons remain trapped in the gravel beaches of Alaska.

Even before the Gulf oil spill, a poll by Pew Research in March found that 78 % of the public favors increased government funding for research into clean energy technResearch in March found that 78 % of the public favors increased government funding for research into clean energy technresearch into clean energy technologies.

Peter has more than 36 years of engineering and operational experience and is deeply involved in the Alaska oil spill response programme, as well as co-ordinating related research and development programmes.