Marine Oil Snow (IMAGE)

University of Delaware

Marine Oil Snow

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Andrew Wozniak monitored tanks filled with seawater from the Gulf of Mexico and mixed the seawater with oil, plankton and a chemical dispersant used during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to conduct a chemical analysis of the particles of marine oil snow that fell to the bottom of the tanks.

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Andrew Wozniak

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