Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk
The New Pornographers and Oxfam America collaborate to bring you their new music video for the song “Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk” (from The New Pornographers’ album “Together”), which was shot on...
View ArticlePlans for Offshore Oil Drilling Worry Native Alaskans
The Inupiat Eskimos have called Kotzebue, Alaska home for centuries. Nearly 60% of the Inupiat diet consists of marine mammals from the Arctic Ocean, and marine life is fundamentally important to other...
View ArticleAfter 22 Years, Oil From the Exxon Valdez Disaster Still Found in Prince...
Many years have passed since anyone has hauled in a herring catch to the small Alaskan town of Cordova. Situated 160 miles east of Anchorage on the eastern end of Prince William Sound. R. J. Kopchak...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill: Related Research at Ole Miss
Nearly 5 million barrels of oil were released due to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill between April 2010 and July 2010, making it the largest marine oil spill in American history. Today, over a year...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Cleanup: Making Oysters Safe to Eat
University of Mississippi pharmacy Professor Mark T. Hamann and his research team are developing a process to clean bacteria from oysters using CO2. The process would help communities recover and make...
View ArticlePARC Hydrodynamic Separation (HDS) for cleaning water
PARC’s breakthrough clean water platform technology, Hydrodynamic Separation (HDS), can potentially provide multiple benefits, such as: Compact form factor – ideal for space- and weight-constrained...
View ArticleMonitoring Water Environment with Robotic Fish
Small, inexpensive robotic fish, equipped with sensors, form mobile sensor networks in water, allowing them to monitor water quality and other environmental processes (harmful algal blooms, oil plumes,...
View ArticleTitanium Dioxide Cleans Oysters from the Gulf of Mexico
The University of Mississippi is using titanium dioxide to clean oysters affected by the BP Oil Spill. This video takes a look behind the science of titanium dioxide as well as the clean oysters’ local...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Deepwater Effects
The BP Oil Spill caused catastrophic damage to wildlife not only along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, but also far beneath the water’s surface. This video details some of the deep water damage...
View ArticleHygro-Responsive Membranes for Effective Oil-Water Separation
There is a critical need for new energy-efficient solutions to separate oil-water mixtures, especially those stabilized by surfactants as both the production of oil and oil-transport engender a severe...
View ArticleNew & Innovative Way to Clean Up Oil Spills
We all remember watching in 2010 as crews tried method after method to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They tried chemical dispersants and high-power pumps, but did we even...
View ArticleTransient Electronics: UI Sensor Disappears Underwater
Illinois Professor John A. Rogers demonstrates a new type of electronics; made of silk, magnesium, and silicon, these electronics completely and harmlessly dissolve in water. The potential applications...
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