A Florida State University oceanographer is pointing out another environmental threat from the Gulf oil spill that has been little discussed until now: the potential for tons of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, to make its way into the Earth’s atmosphere, thereby increasing the rate of global warming.

Jeff Chanton is the... More

As the BP oil spill inexorably evolves into the world’s worst environmental disaster, Florida State University oceanographer Ian MacDonald warns that the oil could wash up on European shores before the end of summer.

“It’s entirely possible,” MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State, said in an interview... More

"Once you have oil spewing out of the bottom of the floor of the ocean, anything can occur," said Mark Bonn, the Robert H. Dedman Professor in Services Management in FSU's Dedman School of Hospitality, during a June 3 radio interview... More

"The source of reliable information on this has not been the government," said biological oceanographer Ian MacDonald, a professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at FSU, in a June 3 TIME article... More

Florida State University marine biologist David L. Kimbro will lead scientists from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Maine in a massive effort to study the health and future of the nation’s natural oyster reefs in 12 estuaries spanning 1,000 miles of Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico... More

As oil from a blown-out well continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers from Florida’s public and private universities have joined together to offer their combined expertise on myriad issues related to the spill and its aftermath. These issues include measuring and modeling the magnitude and trajectory of the spill,... More