Reliable forecasts for the dispersion of oceanic contamination are important for coastal
ecosystems, society, and the economy as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in …

Abstract Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research
Initiative (GOMRI) has studied the oil spill from the perspectives of ocean environment …

Lagrangian motion in geophysical fluids may be strongly influenced by coherent structures
that support distinct regimes in a given flow. The problems of identifying and demarcating …

The processes of transport, diffusion and transformation of surface oil in seawater can be
simulated using a Lagrangian model formalism coupled with Eulerian circulation models …

The lack of reliable forecasts for the spread of oceanic and atmospheric contamination
hinders the effective protection of the ecosystem, society, and the economy from the fallouts …

Transport characteristics of oil slicks are reported from a controlled release experiment
conducted in the North Sea in June 2015, during which mineral oil emulsions of different …

Application of recent geometric tools for Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) shows that
material attraction in geostrophic velocities derived from altimetry data imposed an important …

In response to the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a Lagrangian trajectory
modeling system was implemented immediately upon spill onset by marshaling numerical …

Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon MC 252 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, most surface
oil remained more than 40 km offshore, precluding reliable estimation of offshore avian …

Two separate approaches, a carcass sampling model and an exposure probability model,
provided estimates of bird mortalities of 600000 and 800000, respectively, from the 2010 …