Overview
Beach water and sediment samples were collected along the Gulf of Mexico coast to assess differences in contaminant concentrations before and after landfall of Macondo-1 well oil released into the Gulf of Mexico from the sinking of the British Petroleum Corporation's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Samples were collected at 70 coastal sites between May 7 and July 7, 2010, to document baseline, or "pre-landfall" conditions. A subset of 48 sites was resampled during October 4 to 14, 2010, after oil had made landfall on the Gulf of Mexico coast, called the "post-landfall" sampling period, to determine if actionable concentrations of oil were present along shorelines.
- | Author: Amy S. Ludtke
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 108 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1500495247
- | ISBN-13: 9781500495244
