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John Farrington

And Chuck Wilson

www.Gomri.org

Overview of GOMRI

Interim Synthesis of State of Knowledge

Gained

Some Important Examples

Priority for Knowledge Transfer to User

Communities

Concluding Comments

Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

GOMRI is not part of the

National Academy of Science or

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

GOMRI is not part of

National Resource Damage

Assessment or

Clean Water Act

gulfresearchinitiative.org

MISSION: to implement an independent research program that will

Study the effect and the potential associated impact of

hydrocarbon releases on the environment and public health

Develop improvements for spill mitigation, oil detection and

characterization, and advanced remediation technologies

ULTIMATE GOAL: to improve society’s ability to understand,

respond to, and mitigate the impacts of petroleum pollution and

related stressors on marine and coastal ecosystems


1. PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION, dispersion, and dissolution of petroleum, its constituents,

and associated contaminants under the action of physical oceanographic processes, air-sea

interactions, and tropical storms

2. CHEMICAL EVOLUTION and BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION of the

petroleum/dispersant system and subsequent interactions with coastal, open-ocean, and

deep-water ecosystems

3. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS of the petroleum/dispersant system on the sea floor,

water column, coastal waters, beach sediment, wetlands, marshes and organisms, and the

science of ecosystem recovery

4. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS for improved response, mitigation, detection,

characterization, and remediation associated with oil spills and gas releases

5. PUBLIC HEALTH impacts of oil spills including behavioral, socioeconomic,

environmental risk assessment, community capacity, and other population health

considerations and issues


Rita Colwell – UMD & JHU

Margaret Leinen – Scripps

Debra Benoit – Nicholls State

Peter Brewer – MBARI

Richard Dodge – NOVA SE

John Farrington – WHOI

Kenneth Halanych – Auburn

David Halpern – NASA

William Hogarth – FIO

Cecile Mauritzen - Norway

Raymond Orbach – Tx Austin

Jürgen Rullkötter – University of

Oldenburg, Germany

David Shaw – MSU

John Shepherd – University of

Southampton, UK

Bob Shipp – South Alabama

Burton Singer – Florida

Ciro Sumaya – Texas A&M

Dennis Wiesenburg – USM

Rick Shaw – LSU

Dana Yoerger – WHOI

Michael Carron – PD1

Chuck Wilson – CSO1

1 Ex Officio


National Science Board peer evaluation protocols to select funded research

Independent reviews by scientific peers not affiliated with institutions leading proposed projects to avoid conflict of interest in selecting funded research

RB and staff members and peer reviewers sign conflict of interest and non-disclosure statements

Researchers comply with National Academies of Science standards

Researchers conduct independent, objective work with no influence from BP

Researchers independently publish results in peer-reviewed scientific journals with no requirement for BP approval

Alternating RFPs for consortia = 2 (> 3 institutions) and

small research teams = 2 ( 1-4 investigators)

42 states

278 academic institutions

18 countries

As of May 2016:

• 825 scientific peer-reviewed publications, book chapters

• 2965 scientific presentations and posters

• 3450 people: >1000 Scientists 255 Post Docs >1000 grad students

17 COUNTRIES


Marine Pollution Bulletin

Journal of Geophysical

Research – Oceans

Deep Sea Research II – Topical

Studies in Oceanography

Environmental Science &

Technology

PLoS ONE

Langmuir

Ocean Modeling

Oceanography

Geophysical Research Letters

Energy and Fuels

Environmental Research Letters


Research on Oil Transport that Informs

Spill Response

Research on Dispersants that Informs

Oil Spill Response

Research on Oil Biodegradation and

Monitoring that Informs Spill Response

GOMRI Network of Scientists ◦ Hercules Gas Blowout

◦ Galveston Bay Oil Spill

Multi-Consortia Expert Teams ◦ Hydrocarbon Inter-calibration Experiment

◦ Marine Oil Snow and Sedimentation and Flocculate Accumulation Workshop

◦ Dispersants Forum Workshop

GRIIDC mission: to ensure a data and information legacy

that promotes continual scientific discovery and public

awareness of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.

GRIIDC maintains the scientific datasets resulting from

GOMRI-funded research and assists researchers with data

archiving and data interoperability among GOMRI and

other datasets.


February 1-5 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Sponsors and Partners

GOMRI, NAS(Gulf of Mexico Program),

NOAA, EPA, USGS, FDA, GOMURC, GOMA,

COL


One Gulf

Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Communities

Bioscience (2014)

Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (2016)

Oceanography (2016)

Currents (under development)

Elemental (under development)

NASEM-NRC Dispersants study (co-funding; under development)

(Concluding article)

Cross-Cut and Synthesis.

J. W. Farrington, K. A. Burns, M. S. Leinen

What is an adequate/required “baseline” of

knowledge and information for ecosystems under

consideration that might be recipient of an oil spill?

Ecosystem includes human aspects!

How to take sampling and measurement

technologies deployed at various times during

DWH spill and assemble optimal future systems

for response/assessments capabilities?

Sampling/measurement Technologies slide from

White et al Oceanography article

Analytical Chemistry and Microbiology

Methods

Comprehensive GCxGC

FT ICR MS

Molecular Biology - Microbiome

Controversy !

Need Updated U. S. National Research Council

and Other Similar Entity Assessments using All

Aspects of DWH Related Field, Laboratory and

Mesocosm Results AND Other Previous and

Ongoing Research and Assessment Results.

Lightly Oiled Marshes and Wetlands recover

months to one or two years.

Heavily Oiled Marshes and Wetlands Take a

longer time to recover.

Cleaning Oiled Beaches is a Complicated Process

and often Leaves Residual “Oil Patches/Tar

Patties” buried onshore or immediately offshore.

Interface GOMRI research knowledge with needs

of Oil Spill Response and Remediation

Communities. ◦ Examples in USA are US Coast Guard, US NOAA Oil

Spill Response Groups.

◦ Similar entities in other countries.

◦ Industry Groups – e.g. ITAC

Research transparency

Data Archiving: Appropriate, Reliable, Ease of

Access

Questions?

Comments.

Discussions.

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