Independent researchers face problems wi…
as Louisiana begins the long recovery from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, scientists have rushed to the Gulf Coast, looking to answer burning questions about the impacts of the spill and its cleanup. But some University professors say efforts by independent scientists to quantify those impacts are being hampered by pressures from BP and the federal government. and in the rush to build legal cases in the storm’s aftermath, they say the truth may be at risk of getting pushed aside.
Linda Hooper-Bui, an entomologist with the LSU Ag Center studying the effects of the spill on the area’s food web, said her research has been directly hampered. Hooper-Bui said one of her graduate students was collecting ant samples in coastal Alabama when he was accosted by a U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer.
Hooper-Bui said the student was told he wasn’t authorized to conduct research in the area because he did not have approval from the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command — the organization jointly run by the federal government and BP responsible for the clean-up effort. The official confiscated the ant samples — after weeks of preparation, site selection and collection.
Hooper-Bui said those samples are still sitting in an office somewhere in Alabama. “having to start all over is pretty inconvenient,” she said. Hooper-Bui’s case has since gone public — she has written op-ed pieces in The New York Times and The Scientist and has been a guest on NPR’s “Science Friday.
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