Government and academic scientists continue to search for oil and evaluate impacts to the Gulf from the Deepwater Horizon spill. According to this news story, University of Georgia researchers have found several inches of oil at the bottom of the Gulf, which they believe is from the BP spill. Further tests will help pin this down. As panelists at a July 29 congressional briefing noted, the use of dispersants caused the oil to break into small droplets and disperse in the water rather than rise to the surface and reach the shore, but there is still much to be learned about the impacts on marine life and the fate and behavior of the oil at subsea depths.
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