A religion scholar will visit The Florida State University this week to discuss his work with corporate and government researchers in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to determine the biological, ecological, economic and cultural effects of the spill.

Michael Pasquier, an assistant professor of American religious history... More

The National Science Foundation and the Department of Biological Science at Florida State are hosting an invited workshop, “Long-Term Ecological Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Ecosystems.”

The purpose of this workshop, scheduled for Sept. 10-12 at the Augustus B. Turnbull III Florida State Conference... More

A distinguished group of Florida State University oceanographers, meteorologists, and marine biologists and ecologists will share a new, $500,000 grant from the Northern Gulf Institute to conduct a comprehensive study of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s impact on coastal and ocean marine ecosystems in the northeastern Gulf... More

With nearly $200,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University are using incredibly precise analytical tools housed at the lab to analyze petroleum samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico. Results of those analyses will help determine... More

A Florida State University oceanography professor is questioning government estimates that the vast majority of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is already gone from the Gulf or is being rapidly broken down by bacteria.

“I think the imprint of the BP release, the discharge, will be detectable in the Gulf of Mexico for... More

A giant, low-oxygen “dead zone” where no sea life can exist occurs each summer in the Gulf of Mexico. However, the added effects of this year’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster raise new questions about just how much environmental degradation the Gulf can handle, Bloomberg News reports.

“You start adding these things up,... More

Five research projects related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and led by Florida State University faculty members have been selected for funding by the Florida Institute of Oceanography’s governing council.

The five were among a total of 27 research projects aimed at examining the vast impacts of the Gulf oil spill that... More

This week, two Florida State University oceanography professors dug trenches on a stretch of Pensacola Beach that had recently been cleaned of visible oil and tar balls. What they found, reports National Geographic, was unsettling: Large swaths of oil up to 2 feet deep remained.

“So far, we haven’t seen any rapid degradation... More

Oil is no longer spewing from the damaged Deepwater Horizon drilling site, but how the oil that is already spilled will continue to effect Gulf ecosystems is largely unknown. Ian MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State, shared his thoughts during an Aug. 1 interview on NPR.

“The question is: Will the Gulf of... More

“There’s a tremendous amount of outrage with the oil spill, and rightfully so. But where’s the outrage at the thousands and millions of little cuts we’ve made on a daily basis?”

— Felicia Coleman, director of Florida State’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory, quoted in More