Congrats to our local science heroes!
Scott Eustis
Two University of New Orleans research projects will receive close to $800,000 in grant money from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which is funded with money from settlements of criminal charges against BP and Transocean for their roles in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill in 2010, the National Academies announced Thursday (Nov. 17).
One grant will help researchers create a citizen science program whose participants will collect beach and tar ball data for oil spill planning and response in coastal regions in the Gulf. The $481,000, two-year project will be directed by Mark Kulp, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the university.
search program overseen by the National Academies of Science.
Also participating will be Dinah Maygarden, director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences coastal education program, and Ed Owens and Helen Dubach with Owens Coastal Consultants, which provides scientific and technical support, planning and training for spill response operations.
The project will pair community groups and volunteers with experienced scientists to provide community members with training on how to collect shoreline data. Then the community members will conduct monthly beach elevation surveys and tar ball counts on Grand Isle in Louisiana and Dauphin Island in Alabama.
"If a spill takes place in the future, the data collected will serve as a backbone of the response effort," Kulp said, in a news release issued by the university. "This project will also empower locals to better understand how beaches evolve, what background oiling exists and how a spill response proceeds."
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