Sentences with phrase «oil spills developed»

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Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Cleaning oil spills could be as easy as scraping frosting off a cake, thanks to a nanoparticle coating developed by Philip Brown and Bharat Bhushan, engineers at the Ohio State University.

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.

BOULDER, COLORADO — As the gulf oil spill grows, scientists here are refining models of the slick's behavior in hopes of developing a more accurate picture of its future movements.

Developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the device designed to burn off oil spills more completely.

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.

Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of air pollutants.

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A Florida State University researcher and his team have developed a comprehensive analysis of oil in the Gulf of Mexico and determined how much of it occurs naturally and how much came from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.

Mangrove forests are the tropical ecosystem that is most sensitive to oil spills, according to an environmental sensitivity index developed by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

They've tested dispersants to break up slicks, used cheerleader pom - poms to soak up oil, and developed software to predict the behavior of smoke from a burning spill.

The PhyloChip, which was developed by Andersen and several other Berkeley Lab scientists, has been used for a number of medical, agricultural, and environmental purposes, including understanding air pollution, the ecology of coral reefs, and environmental conditions of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill.

Although the technology has been used in a number of applications ranging from cleaning waterfowl after oil spills to cleaning oyster beds, Thera - Clean has developed it for use in bathing pets.

But the city also has developed a myriad of local institutions that defy the disaster tourism inspired by Katrina and the BP oil spill.

As a result of a fuel tanker grounding and attendant oil spill in 2001, a consortium of energy companies from the G7, calling themselves e7 (created to bring renewable energy to developing nations), funded the installation of three wind turbines on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago, to minimize the amount of fuel that had to be delivered to run the generators.

«Olivia's Birds and the Oil Spill» is included in the MY HERO anthology of films with Teachers Guide promoting the protection of the environment developed to help introduce multi-media tools, films and activities to students in schools or after - school programs in order to instill environmental stewardship.

Future rulemakings may take into consideration information developed by ongoing investigations into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or as a result of public comments on the recently issued Drilling Safety Rule.

Originally invented to clean up the BP Oil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailoOil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailooil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailors.

Since the Deepwater Horizon incident, we've seen an increased focus on developing new ways to contain and clean up oil spills more efficiently.

But the fact that carbon spills present a much more difficult problem than oil spills makes it all the more urgent we stop making carbon spills and start developing and deploying solutions to clean up the spills of past decades.

«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.»

Developed [company name] reports for analyzing data related to a court case involving major oil spill.