Episode 14: Modeling Arctic Oil Spills

• Main Authors: Levin, David, Suprenand, Paul, Ainsworth, Cameron
• Format: Audio
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2019
• Subjects: Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Gulf of Mexico; C-IMAGE; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Arctic; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/loop/4; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/loop/article/1013/type/native/viewcontent/The_Loop_Episode_14.mp3; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/loop/article/1013/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/The_Loop_Episode_14_English_Transcript_1.pdf

Understanding the long-term effects of arctic spills like this one could be even more urgent now than ever, as oil exploration makes its way to the North Slope of Alaska (including inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). C-IMAGE has developed a computer model of the entire Gulf ecosystem, so they could test how future spills would affect the region. And now, they’re applying those tools farther north.