Summary:
GoMRI’s Synthesis Core Area 2 - Fate of Oil & Weathering: Biological & Physical-Chemical Degradation, reviewed research advances related to several areas: methods of oil spill chemical analysis, use of genomics and proteomics, use of molecular biology tools, general exposure studies and techniques, photochemical reactions at sea and on shorelines, microbial degradation, Marine Oil Snow Sedimentation and Flocculent Accumulation (MOSSFA), and alternative dispersant research and technologies.