Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Rapid Response Grant to Study Microbes’ Natural Degradation of Oil
[Via NSF News]
To understand how the use of dispersants impacts the degradation of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a rapid response grant to scientist David Valentine of the University of California at Santa Barbara and colleagues.
The massive release of oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident on April 20, 2010, has led to an unprecedented use of oil dispersants, which include a mix of surfactant compounds designed to dissolve oil and to prevent slick …
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Nice to see some rapid funding of an ongoing event. This should provide some information regarding the effects of dispersants and microbes on the degradation of the slick.
Maybe this will be useful next time.
May 24, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Aren’t you grateful that the government is going to take over the oil spill>>!!
May 24, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Don’t see what this has to do with the NSF funding research over the spill. Where has anyone in the government detailed any plan to take over the spill? This is what they said today:
May 24, 2010 at 2:45 pm
[...] the same day this editorial is being discussed, he gets a major grant from the NSF to research the oil slick. I hope he is able to do some methane monitoring. Maybe that is in [...]