"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 on the BP oil spill. MacDonald has been researching natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico for more than 20 years and is an expert in remote-sensing detection of oil sheens and spills at sea using remote-sensing techniques.