This project is looking at the impacts of the oil and gas spill from the Deepwater Horizon Rig in April 2010. We are focusing on many impacts related to the deep-sea communities near the wellhead and at natural oil seeps. As part of ECOGIG, we are using long-term sampling instruments to collect samples near the sediment-water interface close to the wellhead and comparing rates of microbial oil degradation to those rates found at natural oil seeps.
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This project is funded by Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. To read more up-to-date news about the other projects funded by the GRI, see the inaugural newsletter here.