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9 June 2010
New Images From Space Show a LOT of Oil
The images from the NASA Terra and Aqua satellites have at times shown the oil slick in the Gulf very dramatically. Today’s is one of the best I have seen. The sun angle was just right. You can also see a smoke plume at the very bottom. This is where they are burning the oil off the top of the ocean. (That seems very strange to have to write.) How …
How Much Oil Is Really Leaking? Ask These Two People.
Ira Leifer and Steve Wereley. That’s who to ask. Leifer is a scientist at the Marine Sciences Institute at the Univ. of California Santa Barbara. He is an acknowledged expert on oil in the ocean. President Obama appointed both to the Department of Interior’s Flow Rate Technical Group. (Charged with accurately estimating the leaks magnitude.) Steve Werley is a coauthor of a text book about a scientific technique to estimate …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.