New method successfully predicted how oil from Deepwater Horizon spill would spread

Friday, September 3, 2010 - 07:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico...

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