Study Details Impact of Deepwater Horizon Oil on Beach Microbial Communities

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Using advanced genomic identification techniques, researchers studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon spill on communities of beach microbes saw a succession of organisms and identified population changes in specific organisms that marked the progress of the oil's breakdown.

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