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4 Monitoring Needs in the Deep Gulf of Mexico
4 Monitoring Needs in the Deep Gulf of Mexico
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However, industry increasingly normal circumstances would persist for 300 years. Duris pursuing oil into the deep ocean, whether off the ing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, some of this oxygen coast of the eastern United States, Brazil, West Africa, may have been consumed by hydrogen-digesting miIndia, Australia, or the Gulf of Mexico.
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UNDERSTANDING THE DEEP OCEAN For example, the northern Gulf is characterized by an extensive salt layer, which is malleable and which pro- The restoration activities responding to the Deepvides conduits to the oil that industry is seeking. Tec- water Horizon oil spill took place largely on the coast, tonically, the Gulf is a failed spreading center that used yet this was an oceanic spill, said Mark Benfield, proto be active but is now a passive ocean basin.
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held two workshops in 2013 that looked at offshore ecosystem services through the eyes of a small group INDUSTRY MARINE RESEARCH AND of stakeholders, including representatives of the oil and THE POTENTIAL FOR GLIDERS gas, fishing, and recreational industries along with a variety of people from the governmental and nonprofit The oil and gas industry has supported some nosectors. The workshop participants tended not to em- table marine research, though this research is often not phasize their own narrow interests, Yoskowitz said.
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"Trying to argue that pogenic sound, track the loop current and eddies, track it's going to provide good will or advance science will oil spills, identify sources of unknown slicks, track the count, but they're typically not sufficient on their own fate and effects of pollutants, and assist search and resto justify an investment." cue, said Cooper. For other stakeholders, gliders could Cooper briefly described some of the existing R&D monitor harmful algal blooms, measure hypoxia, track consortia involving industry.
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What is still needed, he contin Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ued, is a central place where metadata and perhaps some sources of funding to respond to the spill are de- original data can be located so that scientists can acclining while others are coming on line. That makes cess this information rapidly.
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These data can provide infor- Since 2005, Van Dover has been working through mation on such factors as particle absorption, dissolved an industry-university partnership on the ecological organic matter, phytoplankton type and abundance, consequences of a deep sea mining project, and she turbidity, sea surface salinity, winds, and sea surface described that work as an example of scientific work in height. the deep sea.
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Although this code takes the ticipants broke into four breakout groups to discuss form of recommendations rather than laws, it is "the environmental monitoring opportunities with a focus gold standard for deep sea mining right now," said Van on the two major areas of interest -- ecosystem restoDover. ration and the deep Gulf.
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• Develop better quality control, calibration, and • Map habitats in three dimensions and their changes validation for Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers for the over time, including types of habitat and competing uses. deep Gulf, including more accurate sensors.
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