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1. Chris Reddy, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examines and collects oil-covered rocks at Nyes Neck in West Falmouth, Mass., following the April 2003 spill from the Bouchard 120 oil barge. Reddy and colleagues study the impact of oil spills and other contaminants on coastal ecosystems, with a particular eye on how the compounds disperse and decay with time. (Kevin Mingora, Cape Cod Times) |
2. Researchers Chris Reddy (foreground) and Robert Nelson take water samples after the Bouchard 120 oil spill in Buzzards Bay Mass. (Photo by C.A. Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
3. Research Chris Reddy records data while sampling in response to the Bouchard 120 oil spill. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
4. WHOI researcher Robert Nelson inspects one of the oil samples taken from the Bouchard 120 oil spill. (Photo by C.A. Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
5. At least 98,000 gallons of fuel oil were spilled into the waters west of Cape Cod, Mass. in April 2003 after the barge Bouchard 120 struck an underwater ledge in Buzzards Bay. The accident prompted legislators in Massachusetts to increase fines for oil spills, implement new safety standards and navigational rules, and impose a two-cent per barrel fee to establish a fund for oil spill response and training. (Photo by Kevin Mingora, Cape Cod Times) |
6. The R/V Connecticut contains the <i>Bouchard 120</i> oil spill with boom. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
7. WHOI researcher Robert Nelson (left) works with WHOI Summer Student Fellow Brian Kile to collect a sample on Nyes Neck Beach, which was impacted by the 2003 Bouchard 120 oil spill in Buzzards Bay, Mass. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
8. An oil spill clean up crew works on Nyes Neck Beach in response to the 2003 Bouchard 120 oil spill in Buzzards Bay, Mass. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |
9. WHOI researcher prepares to analyze a sample taken from the Bouchard 120 oil spill. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) |