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

A new Florida State University study is investigating how quickly the Deepwater Horizon oil carried into Gulf of Mexico beach sands is being degraded by the sands’ natural microbial communities, and whether native oil-eating bacteria that wash ashore with the crude are helping or hindering that process.

What oceanography... More