Gulf oil leak causing upheaval in marine ecology
As oil continues to leak out of the collapsed Deepwater Horizon well head, researchers are beginning to collect data on how it is changing life in the Gulf of Mexico.
Earlier today, Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia in Athens spoke of what they are finding. She said that methane concentrations in a giant underwater plume emanating from the well head are as much as 10,000 times higher than background levels. The consequences of this for life in the gulf are unknown.
Joye was one of the first scientists to discover deep-water plumes emanating from the ongoing spill and recently returned from a two-week research expedition on board the research vessel F. G. Walton Smith. "It's an infusion of oil and gas that has never been seen before, certainly not in human history," she said earlier today, as she described her preliminary findings.
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As oil leaks out of the Deepwater Horizon well head, researchers collect data about the changes life suffers in the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia in Athens spoke about the findings. She said that methane concentrations in an underwater plume emanating from the well head are 10,000 times higher than background levels. The consequences for life in the gulf are unknown.
Joye was among the first scientists to discover plumes emanating from the spill and recently returned from an expedition on board the research vessel F. G. Walton Smith. "It's an infusion of oil and gas that has never been seen before, certainly not in human history," she said earlier today.
The plume is longer than 24 kilometres, 8 kilometres wide and 90 metres thick, and stretches from 700 to 1300 metres below the surface of the collapsed Deepwater Horizon well.
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