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Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.

Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.
Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.
Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.
Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.
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Ferdinand Oberle collecting an oil sample from the beach. Freiberg behind.
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07/09/2013
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Info from Bob Nelson:
Collecting samples of oil that washed up on the beach during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Reddy's lab has been collecting samples since the oil spill began and they are storing them as part of our "weathered oil" respository for the Deepwater Horizon collection. They collect oil covered sand (they call them sand paddies) as well as samples that they scrape off rocks. They cover a lot of ground during these trips, typically starting in the Pensacola area (Perdido Beach) and working their way westward stopping at Gulf Shores, and Fort Morgan Beach. From there they take a ferry across Mobile Bay to Dauphin Island, AL and collect more samples.They end up in New Orleans, LA at the end of day 2. Day 3, they head down to Grand Isle, Elmers Island and Port Fourchon (all in Louisiana), collect more samples and then drive back to New Orleans.
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In the summer of 2013, guest student Ferdinand Oberle collected samples of oil on a beach along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Each year since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, members of marine chemist Chris Reddys lab have been collecting clumps of oil-covered sand and scraping weathered oil from rocks to study how long spilled oil persists in the environment, how it breaks down, and what compounds are formed as it weathers. The students gathered samples along the Gulf Coast from Pensacola, Florida to Grand Isle, Louisiana, and beyond.
Photo courtesy of Ben Freiberg
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