Scientist proposes method to quantify Gulf oil spill

Monday, May 24, 2010 - 17:20 in Earth & Climate

While the world has reacted with shock and anger to the massive amounts of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon platform blowout, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has proposed that methane gas dissolved into the waters of the Gulf holds the key to calculating the magnitude of the spill.

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