Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Oil Plume Studied in Great Depths
A University of Oklahoma technology — GeoChip — played a critical role in an intensive study of the dispersed oil plume that formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet some 10 miles from BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Paper:
GeoChip: a comprehensive microarray for investigating biogeochemical, ecological and environmental processes
Zhili He1,2, Terry J Gentry2,3, Christopher W Schadt2, Liyou Wu1,2, Jost Liebich2,5, Song C Chong2, Zhijian Huang2,6, Weimin Wu4, Baohua Gu2, Phil Jardine2, Craig Criddle4 and Jizhong Zhou1,2
The ISME Journal (2007) 1, 67–77; doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.2
Tags: oilspill
