Microbial communities present in the Gulf of Mexico rapidly responded to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In deep water plumes, these communities were initially dominated by members of Oceanospirillales, Colwellia, and Cycloclasticus. None of these groups were abundant in surface oil slick samples, and Colwellia was much more abundant in oil-degrading enrichment cultures incubated at 4 °C than ...

Introduction The very nature of marine oil spills massive quantities covering vast areas open ocean and/or coastline necessitates the use of satellite remote sensing to supplement other aerial observations. Remote sensing instrumentation is constrained to work in areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, which transmit sufficient quantities of radiation such as the microwave, thermal, near infrare...

Evolutionary adaptations are occasionally convergent solutions to the same problem. A mutation contributing to a heat tolerance adaptation in Senepol cattle, a New World breed of mostly European descent, results in the distinct phenotype known as slick, where an animal has shorter hair and lower follicle density across its coat than wild type animals. The causal variant, located in the 11th exo...

Abstract number 1141410 Two recent accidents with a significant oil spill occurred near the French coast. One in Mediterranean Sea and other Bay of Biscay. On October 7, 2018, Tunisian ro-ro vessel Ulysses collided Cypriot container ship CSL Virginia at anchor off northern Corsica. The spilled bunker could not be fully recovered by Italian anti-pollution vessels due to unfavourable weather cond...

Cloud computing o‚ers the economies of scale for computational resources with the ease of management, elasticity, and fault tolerance. To take advantage of these bene€ts, many enterprises are contemplating to outsource the middlebox processing services in the cloud. However, middleboxes that process con€dential and private data cannot be securely deployed in the untrusted environment of the (ed...

In recent years, marine oil spills have adversely affected the economy and ecosystem, detection of slicks has attracted great attention. Combining different polarimetric features for better spill is a topic that needs to be studied in depth. Previous studies shown compact (CP) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can effectively applied sea surface due its own ability, which conducive extraction slic...