Every Snow Often Oil, Microbes, and Sediment Get Together and Sink

Every Snow Often Oil, Microbes, and Sediment Get Together and Sink
Marine snow, as seen from a ROV while traveling through the water. Photo courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration.

July 22, 2020

Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant is hosting a marine oil snow webinar on July 22nd, 2020! This online only event will be available as a Zoom webinar and via Facebook Live. The format will be three individual presentations followed by a live question and answer session with all three speakers. 

Speakers, below, will cover marine snow and the role it played before, during, and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Click here for the agenda.

  • Antonietta Quigg, Associate Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University Galveston, Marine snow and MOSSFA
  • Kai Ziervogel, Director of Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, ECOGIG researcher, University of New Hampshire, Fate of sinking marine snow and marine oil snow
  • Kendra Daly, Professor, University of South Florida, Environmental impacts of marine snow

Questions? Please contact Monica Wilson with UF/IFAS Florida Sea Grant at monicawilson447@ufl.edu or 727.553.3516.

This post originally appeared online here.

 

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