ACS Symposium on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
21 July 2010
The American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold a special day-long symposium on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Tuesday, 24 Aug during its 240th National Meeting & Exposition in Boston. The symposium, which includes almost a dozen experts, will examine topics ranging from the spill’s effects on marine life to its effects on the safety of seafood.
The goal of the symposium is to gather people with different skills and backgrounds, including leaders in the field of oil spill chemistry, in an effort to study the oil spill and hopefully find out how to turn it around. The oil spill is a cross-disciplinary problem in which chemistry plays a key role in finding solutions.
—co-organizer Dr. Kermit Murray, professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University
There’s ongoing concern about many facets of the oil spill, including its impact on marine life and the environment and the effects of the chemical dispersants used to break up the oil spill, noted symposium co-organizer John Finley, Ph.D., also of LSU. He noted that some people are particularly concerned about the potential impact of the oil spill on the safety of seafood coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
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