Researchers track path of oil from rig spill

摘要

With no end in sight for the oil gushing from the explosion site at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, anxious US officials are looking to researchers who study the Gulf of Mexico and its idiosyncratic currents to help determine where all the oil is and where it might be heading. Long-term efforts to understand the movement of Gulf waters because of their effect on hurricanes are now being used to address the more immediate question of which regions and ecosystems outside the immediate spill zone are most likely to bear the brunt of a non-stop river of oil.