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Giving testimony on the Gulf oil spill

Marine chemist Christopher Reddy, Director of the WHOI Coastal Ocean Institute and specialist on the fate of petroleum in the marine environment, is studying the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, part of the WHOI response to the spill. Reddy (left), who will take part with other WHOI scientists in a July 29, 2010 public forum at WHOI, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce and Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment at the June 10, 2010 hearing on “The BP Oil Spill: Human Exposure and Environmental Fate.” Also testifying were Edward J. Trapido, Louisiana State University Health; and Gina Solomon, University of California San Francisco.
(Photo by Photo-Op, for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)