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Saturday Science: The Science of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
January 28, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Free
About the Speaker
Dr. Emily Maung-Douglass is an oil spill specialist at Louisiana Sea Grant. Her work, funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), focuses on chemical evolution and breakdown of petroleum and dispersants in the environment as well as their interactions with the ecosystem.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in 2010 off the coast of Louisiana and continues to be the largest accidental release of oil on record. What have scientists discovered about the spill in the past seven years? How are scientists continuing to study the impacts of the spill and preparing for the next one?
Please join us at LSU’s Saturday Science Lecture to learn the answers to these questions and more!