Episode 9: Forensic Oceanography

Authors

David Levin, Mind Open Media
Chuanmin Hu, University of South FloridaFollow
Shaojie Sun, University of South Florida

Document Type

Podcast

Publication Date

1-2017

Keywords

Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico, C-IMAGE

Abstract

Listen to learn how scientists reanalyzed remotely sensed data taken in the late 1970s to study the Ixtoc 1 oil spill. Dr. Chuanmin Hu and his graduate student Shaojie Sun use the Landsat and Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) data to develop “treasure maps” of oil from the IXTOC-1 spill to steer field studies. Listen in to find out how they did it.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Forensic Oceanography, The Loop, Mind Open Media

Scholar Commons Citation

Levin, David; Hu, Chuanmin; and Sun, Shaojie, "Episode 9: Forensic Oceanography" (2017). The Loop. 9.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/loop/9