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Deepwater Horizon oil spill response, the Glossary

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred between 10 April and 19 September 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.^[1]

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A Whale

Cosmo Ace, formerly A Whale and Madison Orca, is a Liberian-flagged ore-oil carrier built in 2010 by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan, South Korea for TMT Co. Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and a Whale are Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Alcanivorax borkumensis

Alcanivorax borkumensis is an alkane-degrading marine bacterium which naturally propagates and becomes predominant in crude-oil-containing seawater when nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients are supplemented.

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Autonomous University of Aguascalientes

The Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (in Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, UAA) is a Mexican public university based in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Barrier island

Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.

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BDO Global

BDO (an acronym for Binder Dijker Otte) is an international network of public accounting, tax, consulting and business advisory firms that provide professional services under the name BDO.

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Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.

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Bobby Jindal

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016.

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Boom (containment)

A containment boom is a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Butane

Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Carol Browner

Carol Martha Browner (born December 16, 1955) is an American lawyer, environmentalist, and businesswoman, who served as director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.

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Catabolism

Catabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that breaks down molecules into smaller units that are either oxidized to release energy or used in other anabolic reactions.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Centrifugal water–oil separator

A centrifugal water–oil separator, centrifugal oil–water separator or centrifugal liquid–liquid separator is a device designed to separate oil and water by centrifugation.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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College of William & Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.

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Corexit

Corexit (often styled COREXIT) is a product line of oil dispersants used during oil spill response operations. Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and Corexit are Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife is a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization based in the United States.

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Dioxin

Dioxin may refer to a number of different substances.

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Dispersant

A dispersant or a dispersing agent is a substance, typically a surfactant, that is added to a suspension of solid or liquid particles in a liquid (such as a colloid or emulsion) to improve the separation of the particles and to prevent their settling or clumping.

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Dispersit

Dispersit SPC 1000 or Dispersit is a dispersant used for oil spills, produced by U.S. Polychemical Corporation.

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Docusate

Docusate is the common chemical and pharmaceutical name of the anion bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate, also commonly called dioctyl sulfosuccinate (DOSS).

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Earthjustice

Earthjustice (originally Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) is a nonprofit public interest organization based in the United States dedicated to litigating environmental issues.

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Ed Markey

Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013.

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Emulsion

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation.

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Endeavor Business Media is an American business-to-business media company founded by Chris Ferrell and others in December 2017.

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Ethane

Ethane is a naturally occurring organic chemical compound with chemical formula.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

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Freedom of Information Act (United States)

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request.

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Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.

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Georgia Tech

The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech and GT or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or the Institute) is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States.

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Lockheed C-130 Hercules

The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) is a governmental authority created by the Louisiana State Legislature in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to combat the ongoing erosion of Louisiana's coast.

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McClatchy

The McClatchy Company, or simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law.

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Merchant Marine Act of 1920

The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States federal statute that provides for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine.

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Mississippi River Delta

The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States.

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Nalco Water

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, is an American supplier of water, energy and air improvement solutions and services for industrial and institutional markets, owned by Ecolab.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism.

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National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling is a bipartisan presidential commission, established by Executive Order 13543 signed by Barack Obama on May 21, 2010, that is "tasked with providing recommendations on how the United States can prevent and mitigate the impact of any future spills that result from offshore drilling." It came about as a result of the April 2010 ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill. Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling are Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Oil dispersant

An oil dispersant is a mixture of emulsifiers and solvents that helps break oil into small droplets following an oil spill.

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Oil skimmer

An oil skimmer is a device that is designed to remove oil floating on a liquid surface.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula.

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Propylene glycol

Propylene glycol (IUPAC name: propane-1,2-diol) is a viscous, colorless liquid.

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Rick Steiner

Robert Rechsteiner (born March 9, 1961) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Rick Steiner.

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Riki Ott

Riki Ott (born August 8, 1954) is a marine toxicologist and activist in Cordova, Alaska.

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Robert S. Young

Robert S. Young is professor of coastal geology at Western Carolina University and director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Sorbent

A sorbent is an insoluble material that either absorbs or adsorbs liquids or gases.

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Tarball (oil)

A tarball is a blob of petroleum which has been weathered after floating in the ocean.

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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.

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The Advocate (Louisiana)

The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper.

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The Charlotte Observer

The Charlotte Observer is an American newspaper serving Charlotte, North Carolina, and its metro area.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate

The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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Unified Command (Deepwater Horizon oil spill)

The Unified Command provides Incident Command System/Unified Command (ICS) for coordinating response to the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill. Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and Unified Command (Deepwater Horizon oil spill) are Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_response

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