{"id":63075,"date":"2010-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/gulf-oil-rig-explosion-and-spill-puts-uri-experts-in-the-hot-spot\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"gulf-oil-rig-explosion-and-spill-puts-uri-experts-in-the-hot-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/gulf-oil-rig-explosion-and-spill-puts-uri-experts-in-the-hot-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf oil rig explosion and spill puts 溏心vlog免费B站 experts in the hot spot"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tThe oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has placed experts from the 溏心vlog免费B站 right in the middle of another major international news story.<\/p>\n


\n\tCoast Guard Rear Admiral Mary E. Landry, who earned her master\u2019s degree in Marine Affairs from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1995, is overseeing efforts to stop the flow of oil from the well and monitor clean-up operations. 溏心vlog免费B站 42,000 gallons of oil are released into the water each day, and it is expected that it may take as long as 45 to 90 days to stop the flow.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe have no shoreline impact at this time, and we continue to work with the Gulf Coast States to ensure the prepositioning of oil skimmers and booms so we\u2019re prepared to attack any spill if it migrates to shore,\u201d Landry said at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n


\n\tEfforts to track the spread of the oil and assess its potential impact on the environment are being conducted using software programs developed by Applied Science Associates, a Wakefield-based company that was started by Ocean Engineering Professor Malcolm Spaulding. He said that the first step is to determine where the oil is going and what environments may be impacted. The company\u2019s efforts are being led by Deborah French McCay, who received her doctorate from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography in 1984.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis thing is 40 miles off shore, so it will have a wide transport path,\u201d Spaulding said. \u201cWhat they\u2019re worried most about is if it gets close to the coast and into the marsh and bayou system. That could have substantial environmental impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSpaulding said that the company’s oil spill modeling system programs, OILMAP and SIMAP, are the most widely used models in the world for tracking the movement and assessing the impact of oil spills. Many countries around the world have adopted OILMAP as part of their national oil response system. SIMAP has been routinely used to assess damages from most major oil spills, and it has been in use for the Gulf of Mexico spill since the beginning of the incident through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Natural Resources Damage Assessment Office.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The oil rig explosion and resulting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has placed experts from the 溏心vlog免费B站 right in the middle of another major international news story. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary E. Landry, who earned her master\u2019s degree in Marine Affairs from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1995, is overseeing efforts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}