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Speakers:
Dr Simon Boxall, Associate Lecturer at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Dr Christoph Gertler, Department of Biological Sciences, Bangor University
Prof Geoffrey Maitland, Professor of Energy Engineering, Imperial College London
Dr Martin Preston, Senior Lecturer in Marine Chemistry, University of Liverpool
Simon Rickaby, Pollution and Salvage Special Interest Group, IMarEST
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has huge environmental, political and financial implications. For the 8 weeks since the start of the leak scientists have been striving to assess its size, nature and toxicity in order to work out just how much damage is being done. Various methods have been suggested to not only stem but also clean up the spill, each with huge consequences of its own. The SMC gathered experts in various aspects of this subject to brief journalists on the background to the spill, its size, its impact and what can be done to prevent similar accidents in the future.