The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill with Drs. John White and John Pardue
\u201cCrude Oil Effects on Redox Status of Salt Marsh Soil in Louisiana\u201d with Dr. John White. Also featuring Dr. John Pardue.
Ten years ago, on April 20th, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded, killing eleven crewmen and releasing about five million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding environment over the next 87 days. Drs. John White and John Pardue have spent much of their careers focusing on the effects of oil on the environment and ways to speed recovery efforts after spills. Join us as we discuss their papers on the relationships between oil, plant health, and microbes, as well as where we are on the road to recovery today.
Listen in to learn:
- The difference between fresh and weathered oil
- How buried and surface level oil can affect the health of plants
- The importance of oxygen for microbial breakdown of crude oil
- Where we are today in the recovery process after Deepwater Horizon
If you would like more information about this topic, this episode\u2019s paper is available here: https://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2016.12.0398\xa0
It will be freely available from 3 April to 17 April, 2020.
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If you would like to reach out to John White, you can find him here:
jrwhite@lsu.edu
If you would like to reach out to John Pardue, you can find him here:
jpardue@lsu.edu
Resources
CEU Quiz: http://www.soils.org/education/classroom/classes/792
\u201cTen Years after Deepwater Horizon: OilSpill's Impact on Louisiana's Salt Marshes\u201d CSA News Article: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csan.20104
\u201cSalt Marsh Sediment Biogeochemical Response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Blowout\u201d CSA News Article: https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2014-59-10-5
\u201cLasting Oil Spill Impacts in Coastal Wetland\u201d CSA News Article: https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2017.62.0810 \xa0
\u201cHow Did Deepwater Horizon\u2019s Spill Affect the Coastal Soils and Wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico?\u201d Soils Matter blog: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/how-did-deepwater-horizons-spill-affect-the-coastal-soils-and-wetlands-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/
\u201cDetermining the Impact of Deepwater Horizon\u2019s Spill on Soil\u201d Soils Matter blog: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/determining-the-impact-of-deepwater-horizons-spill-on-soil/
\u201cDeepwater Horizon: What Will the Future Bring?\u201d Soils Matter blog: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/deepwater-horizon-what-will-the-future-bring/
John P.\u2019s article \u201cBiogeochemical controls on biodegradation of buried oil along a coastal headland beach\u201d (free to download until May 9, 2020): https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1alkk,ashxlM1
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