Sunflower kernel is rich in protein and considered an alternative plant source for meat analogue application. The effect of process conditions used to make ingredients from sunflower needs be investigated on the functional structuring properties. Pre-pressing de-oiling with 96% ethanol were applied obtain de-oiled (DSK). Pressed (PSK) was obtained by more intensive pressing only. Their concentr...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010) resulted in ~100 km of heavily oiled salt marsh shorelines with severe vegetation impacts. Approximately 27 these had cleanup treatments aimed at limiting spread and facilitating ecological recovery. Heavy oiling impacts disturbance from intensive left largely bare live vegetation. Following operational-scale shoreline experimental planting Spartina altern...

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was the largest environmental disaster and response effort in U.S. history, with nearly 800 million liters of crude oil spilled. Vast areas of the Gulf of Mexico were contaminated with oil, including deep-ocean communities and over 1,600 kilometers of shoreline. Multiple species of pelagic, tidal, and estuarine organisms; sea turtles; marine mammals; and bi...

Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) exhibited unprecedented juvenile recruitment in 2010 during the year of the Deepwater Horizon well blowout, exceeding the prior 39-year mean by more than four standard deviations near the Mississippi River. Abundance of that cohort remained exceptionally high for two subsequent years as recruits moved into older age classes. Such changes in this dominant fora...

April 20, 2010 marked the start of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest marine oil spill in US history, which contaminated coastal wetland ecosystems across the northern Gulf of Mexico. We used hyperspectral data from 2010 and 2011 to compare the impact of oil contamination and recovery of coastal wetland vegetation across three ecologically diverse sites: Barataria Ba...

Surface carbonization, or charring, of wooden cladding boards is a promising, low impact process that can substitute inorganic coatings. The char surface inert and hydrophobic possibly long-lasting solution for exterior uses. To determine the performance surface-charred wood, several sorption experiments were established. Sapwood two hardwoods (aspen, birch) softwoods (pine, spruce) used as exp...