{"id":636,"date":"2017-12-08T16:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2018-02-09T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:39:49","slug":"coscobuson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/projects\/coscobuson\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosco Busan Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Cosco Busan<\/em> Oil Spill<\/h1>\n<p>On November 7, 2007 the container ship <i>Cosco Busan <\/i>struck the Oakland Bay Bridge in a heavy fog.\u00a0 The impact ruptured port fuel tanks #3 and #4 on the <i>Cosco Busan<\/i> which released approximately 53,500 gallons of heavy fuel oil known as \u201cBunker Fuel\u201d into San Francisco Bay.\u00a0 Forensic analysis performed in our laboratory indicated that the fuels in port tank #3 and port tank #4 were genetically different from one another and easily distinguishable using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC\u00d7GC).\u00a0 Employing a \u201cdifference chromatogram\u201d analysis technique, we were able to subtract the chromatograms produced for each fuel tank from one another, and look for areas where the difference chromatograms zero out and areas where the chromatograms show maxima (or large differences).\u00a0 This technique is particularly useful for highlighting differences between samples which are essential for stream lining analytical approaches to study and quantify the contribution of Bunker Fuel product from each fuel tank released into the San Francisco Bay environment.\u00a0 A peer reviewed manuscript written by Lemkau <i>et al<\/i>. about this work can be found in Marine Pollution Bulletin 2010 Volume 60 pages 2123-2129<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_1_385153.jpg\" alt=\"CB_1_385153\" height=\"716\" width=\"956\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Chromatograms<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_681\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Port Tank #3<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_683\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Port Tank #4<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_684\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-684\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Port Tank #3<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_685\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Port Tank #4<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_686\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-686\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Difference Chromatogram<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_687\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-687\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/02\/CB_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosco Busan Difference Chromatogram<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosco Busan Oil Spill On November 7, 2007 the container ship Cosco Busan struck the Oakland Bay Bridge in a heavy fog.\u00a0 The impact ruptured port fuel tanks #3 and #4 on the Cosco Busan which released approximately 53,500 gallons of heavy fuel oil known as \u201cBunker Fuel\u201d into San Francisco Bay.\u00a0 Forensic analysis performed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions\/690"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/gcxgcfacility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}