{"id":725,"date":"2019-05-30T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/?page_id=725"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:52:54","slug":"tracking-hydrocarbon-plume-transport-and-biodegradation-at-deepwater-horizon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/pubs\/peer-reviewed-journal-articles\/tracking-hydrocarbon-plume-transport-and-biodegradation-at-deepwater-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h1>Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon<\/h1>\n<h3>R. Camilli, C.M. Reddy, D.R. Yoerger, B. Van Mooy, M.V. Jakuba, J.C. Kinsey, C.P. McIntyre, S.P. Sylva, J. V. Maloney. Science, 330(6001):201-204, 2010.<\/h3>\n<p>The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in\u00a0history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey\u00a0using an autonomous underwater vehicle and a ship-cabled sampler.\u00a0Our findings indicate the presence of a continuous plume of oil,\u00a0more than 35 kilometers in length, at approximately 1100 meters depth\u00a0that persisted for months without substantial biodegradation. Samples\u00a0collected from within the plume reveal monoaromatic petroleum hydrocarbon\u00a0concentrations in excess of 50 micrograms per liter. These data indicate\u00a0that monoaromatic input to this plume was at least 5500 kilograms\u00a0per day, which is more than double the total source rate of all natural\u00a0seeps of the monoaromatic petroleum hydrocarbons in the northern\u00a0Gulf of Mexico. Dissolved oxygen concentrations suggest that microbial\u00a0respiration rates within the plume were not appreciably more than\u00a01 micromolar oxygen per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon R. Camilli, C.M. Reddy, D.R. Yoerger, B. Van Mooy, M.V. Jakuba, J.C. Kinsey, C.P. McIntyre, S.P. Sylva, J. V. Maloney. Science, 330(6001):201-204, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in\u00a0history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey\u00a0using an autonomous underwater vehicle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":659,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/727"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}