Environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: a review

J Beyer, HC Trannum, T Bakke, PV Hodson… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill constituted an ecosystem-level injury in the
northern Gulf of Mexico. Much oil spread at 1100–1300 m depth, contaminating and …

Microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) in ocean systems

AW Decho, T Gutierrez - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Microbial cells (ie, bacteria, archaea, microeukaryotes) in oceans secrete a diverse array of
large molecules, collectively called extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) or simply …

Environmental impacts of the deep-water oil and gas industry: a review to guide management strategies

EE Cordes, DOB Jones, TA Schlacher… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The industrialization of the deep sea is expanding worldwide. Increasing oil and gas
exploration activities in the absence of sufficient baseline data in deep-sea ecosystems has …

Photothermal and Joule heating-assisted thermal management sponge for efficient cleanup of highly viscous crude oil

X Wu, Y Lei, S Li, J Huang, L Teng, Z Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fast and efficient cleanup of high-viscosity oil spills on the sea is still a global challenge
today. Traditional recycling methods are either energy demanding or inefficient …

Electrospun flexible nanofibrous membranes for oil/water separation

J Zhang, F Zhang, J Song, L Liu, Y Si, J Yu… - Journal of materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Frequent oil spills and the ever-growing discharge of industrial oily wastewater seriously
threaten ecosystems and human safety and result in huge economic loss, which has …

A novel deep learning instance segmentation model for automated marine oil spill detection

ST Yekeen, AL Balogun, KBW Yusof - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry …, 2020 - Elsevier
The visual similarity of oil slick and other elements, known as look-alike, affects the reliability
of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for marine oil spill detection. So far, detection and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of oil-associated marine snow formation and sedimentation during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

KL Daly, U Passow, J Chanton, D Hollander - Anthropocene, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest in US history, unprecedented for
the depth and volume of oil released, the amount of dispersants applied, and the …

Deepwater Horizon, 5 years on

SB Joye - Science, 2015 - science.org
On 20 April 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling unit initiated an
uncontrolled release of oil and gas from the Macondo seafloor well into the Gulf of Mexico …

Natural and unnatural oil slicks in the G ulf of M exico

IR MacDonald, O Garcia‐Pineda, A Beet… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
When wind speeds are 2–10 ms− 1, reflective contrasts in the ocean surface make oil slicks
visible to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) under all sky conditions. Neural network analysis of …

Biotechnologies for marine oil spill cleanup: indissoluble ties with microorganisms

F Mapelli, A Scoma, G Michoud, F Aulenta, N Boon… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
The ubiquitous exploitation of petroleum hydrocarbons (HCs) has been accompanied by
accidental spills and chronic pollution in marine ecosystems, including the deep ocean …