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Deepwater Horizon: the British view

Deepwater Horizon: the British view

As the American-led response effort in the Gulf of Mexico continues to struggle with the leaking Deepwater Horizon well, five UK-based oil experts congregated in London to tell journalists why controlled burns were a bad idea, how microbes could have helped, and why an Arctic leak would be even worse.

The Bering Sea Project: Wild Weather, Damaged Equipment & the Oscillating Control Hypothesis

The Bering Sea Project: Wild Weather, Damaged Equipment & the Oscillating Control Hypothesis

We’ve had an exciting few days on board the Thompson. The “storm” came and went. For three days, we had gale-force winds kicking up 8-10 foot swells, and some 15-footers. The boat was seriously rocking and rolling. I got to see one of only 2,000 short-tailed albatrosses in the world – a very lucky sighting – and the research continued, day and night, but not without mishap.