RAPID: Emergency Field Investigation of Oil-Beach Interaction along the Alabama and Florida Beaches Following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

RAPID：英国石油公司深水地平线漏油事件后，对阿拉巴马州和佛罗里达州海滩沿线的油滩相互作用进行紧急现场调查

• 批准号: 1041868
• 负责人: Ping Wang
• 金额: $ 4.46万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-15 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Emergency; Field; Investigation; Oil

RAPID: Emergency Field Investigation of Oil-Beach Interaction along the Alabama and Florida Beaches Following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillPing Wang, University of South FloridaEAR-1041868ABSTRACTThe BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred on April 20 2010 and continues to leak, putting this spill on track to become the worst oil spill in US history, imposing a highly anticipated anthropogenic disaster to a large area of marine and coastal environment. The oil is dispersing northward in the Gulf of Mexico, very likely heading toward the Florida and Alabama beaches, with almost a certain landfall along the some parts of the Gulf coast region. Both the small- and large-scale regional effects of the oil?s interaction with the dynamic sandy beach environment are unknown. The proposed study will investigate and quantify beach-oil interaction through intensive field data collection immediately before and after the ?landfall? of the oil. The proposed study will be accomplished through a series of intensive field data collection, focusing primarily on the sedimentological aspect. It is anticipated that regional distribution of the oil landfall will be mapped by various government environmental agencies. However, the processes associated with vertical mixing of the oil into the beach sediment may not be well documented. The Coastal Research Laboratory in the Department of Geology at the University of South Florida (USF-CRL) is well positioned to provide the crucial information on the oil-beach interaction, in addition to the effects at a regional scale.

RAPID：BP 深水地平线漏油事件后对阿拉巴马州和佛罗里达州海滩沿线油滩相互作用的紧急现场调查王平，南佛罗里达大学EAR-1041868摘要墨西哥湾 BP 深水地平线漏油事件于 2010 年 4 月 20 日发生，并仍在继续泄漏，使这次漏油事件有望成为美国历史上最严重的漏油事件，给大片海洋和沿海地区带来一场备受期待的人为灾难 环境。石油正在墨西哥湾向北扩散，很可能流向佛罗里达州和阿拉巴马州的海滩，几乎肯定会在墨西哥湾沿岸地区的部分地区登陆。石油与动态沙滩环境相互作用的小规模和大规模区域影响都是未知的。拟议的研究将通过“登陆”前后的密集现场数据收集来调查和量化海滩与石油的相互作用。的油。拟议的研究将通过一系列密集的现场数据收集来完成，主要关注沉积学方面。预计各政府环境机构将绘制石油登陆的区域分布图。然而，与石油垂直混合到海滩沉积物中相关的过程可能没有得到很好的记录。南佛罗里达大学地质系 (USF-CRL) 沿海研究实验室处于有利位置，除了提供区域范围内的影响外，还可以提供有关石油与海滩相互作用的重要信息。