Studies of several different oil spill disasters have shown that the people affected by these disasters can suffer adverse mental health and behavioral effects. But does the psychological impact of this kind of event differ among subgroups of the affected population? A new study explores that question by looking at how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 specifically impacted women’s mental...

Microbes consumed oil rapidly http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/ 110801111752.htm In the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil disappeared more rapidly than predicted. This article discusses some of the studies investigating the underlying causes of this rapid biodegradation. Oil spill is boon to bacteria http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57448/ This ...

mangroves are one of the main important species which have critical function in ecologicalprocesses in the coastal habitats. recent studies have focused on long term effects such as biological andchemical responses and reactions of ecosystems. in this research, short term response of avicennia marina’spneumatophores as one of substantial parts of mangroves has been considered while facing the o...

the purpose of this article is to present the development of a wind farm, with a condition monitoring system (cms) based on control charts as the algorithm, centred on a new index, to prevent soil pollution by oil spills in wind farms. to this end, temperature sensors can be considered as one of the more significant sensors to be employed in this study, because the information obtained with reg...

Metagenomics following Deepwater Horizon oil spill http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5733/version/1 This article deals with the recovery of microbial populations in two sites in the Gulf of Mexico prior to and after impact from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Metabolic reconstruction from metagenomes http://bioinformatics.knowledgeblog.org/2011/06/21/asurvey-of-metabolic-reconstruction-to...

Model updating concerns the modification of an existing but inaccurate model with measured data. For models characterized by quadratic pencils, the measured data usually involve incomplete knowledge of natural frequencies, mode shapes, or other spectral information. In conducting the updating, it is often desirable to match only the part of observed data without tampering with the other part of...

Model updating concerns the modification of an existing but inaccurate model with measured data. For models characterized by quadratic pencils, the measured data usually involve incomplete knowledge of natural frequencies, mode shapes, or other spectral information. In conducting the updating, it is often desirable to match only the part of observed data without tampering with the other part of...

The objective of this review was to synthesize existing information regarding the effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on marsh macrophytes in a manner that will help guide research and improve spill-response efficiency. Petroleum hydrocarbons affect plants chemically and physically. Although plants sometime survive fouling by producing new leaves, even relatively non-toxic oils can stress or kill...

The biological consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are unknown, especially for resident organisms. Here, we report results from a field study tracking the effects of contaminating oil across space and time in resident killifish during the first 4 mo of the spill event. Remote sensing and analytical chemistry identified exposures, which were linked to effects in fish characterized by...

Oil spill models are combined with bathymetric, meteorological, oceanographic, and geomorphological data to model a series of oil spill accidents in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A total of 104 oil spill simulations, computed for 11 different locations in the Levantine Basin, show that oil slicks will reach the coast of Cyprus in four (4) to seven (7) days in summer conditions. Oil slick traje...