Today’s highlight was the discovery of a feature that could be the most important finding of the trip. We have been hypothesizing that some of the oil that is coming out of the well is most likely not getting to the surface so we engaged in two efforts to find subsurface oil. The first effortRead the story …
About the NIUST blog
May 12, 2010 by
National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology (NIUST) The National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology (NIUST) was established in 2002 by the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Mississippi in partnership with NOAA’s Undersea Research Program (NURP) to develop and apply new technologies that enhance undersea research. NIUST is made up ofRead the story …
SITREP for May 10, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
Click to enlarge map In spite of the new techniques put into play today, which always require some adjustments before they run smoothly, we were able to get a lot done. The most significant observation today was the presence of hundreds of dead velella (by the wind sailors). These aren’t all that common in theRead the story …
SITREP for May 9, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
Today’s activity focused on the exchange of personnel and equipment during a brief port call. We arrived in Cocodrie at around 6:00am and left for the USM facility at the Stennis Space Center (3 hours’ drive each way) in preparation for the next leg of the cruise. Planned sampling activities include: Towed Acrobat profiling vehicleRead the story …
SITREP for May 8, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
After our last core of the day yesterday, we once again hove to,this time at a site 20 miles due east of the Deepwater Horizon site. At that time (midnight), the winds were calm and no oil or odor were evident. At 04:00, the winds picked up from the west and a sheen of oilRead the story …
SITREP for May 7, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
This table and map image list all of the stations visited to date, including the 4 widely separated cores obtained today. Click image to enlarge Today we continued our coring and covered a much wider area than yesterday but at lower sampling resolution. We started a transect at a point due east of the MississippiRead the story …
SITREP for May 6, 2010
May 12, 2010 by
We are still in the vicinity of Ground Zero and are continuing to collect sediment samples on several transects from the spill site to points north and west. We are looking for the effects of the oil with seems to be leaving the surface and settling towards the seafloor at an unknown rate. I haveRead the story …
Sociology Major Studies in Northern Ireland for Academic Credit, Lesson in History
May 11, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – American students usually learn another country’s history from afar. But University of Mississippi junior Kelly Pizzo has come to understand Northern Ireland’s recent storied past while studying there during the spring semester. Kelly Pizzo of Mandeville, La., tests the water in the Glendalough Valley of Ireland’s Wicklow National Park. Glendalough – meaningRead the story …
L-O-U Summer Sunset Series Kicks Off 10th Season June 6
May 11, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The 10th season of the Lafayette-Oxford-University Summer Sunset Series kicks off June 6 with the Mississippians Jazz Combo in the Grove at the University of Mississippi.
U.S. News & World Report Ranks School of Business Administration in Nation’s Top 5 Percentile
May 10, 2010 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration rose significantly in U.S News & World Report’s latest annual ranking of the nation’s nearly 1,800 undergraduate business programs.