Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Principal Investigator Workshop. Held in St. Petersburg, Florida on October 25-26, 2011.

摘要

The Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon 252 (DWH) oil spill focused unprecedented attention on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. During the response to the DWH event, resource managers and researchers from across the country partnered to conduct science, monitoring, and response activities to understand impacts from the spill. The data and information collected from those efforts have since been used to make progress towards the longterm goal of protecting and restoring public health and natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico. During the spill response, federal coordination with the Gulf of Mexico academic community included joint work on subsurface monitoring of oil, as well as selection of research for direct support through mechanisms like the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Rapid Response Research grants program. Much of the early scientific knowledge gained from this work was presented during a National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) Principal Investigator Conference held October 5‐6, 2010 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Given the important role the October 2010 workshop played in bringing scientists together and the numerous activities that have ensued since, the NSTC Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (SOST) held a second workshop on October 25‐26, 2011, again in St. Petersburg, Florida. This follow‐on workshop provided an opportunity for researchers to share final (or near final) results of studies that were very much works in progress during the first coordinating conference in October 2010.