RAPID: Emergency Field Investigation of Oil-Beach Interaction along the Alabama and Florida Beaches Following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

快速：沿着亚拉巴马和佛罗里达海滩石油-海滩相互作用的紧急现场调查2010年4月20日，BP深水地平线石油泄漏事件发生在墨西哥湾，并继续泄漏，使这次泄漏事件成为美国历史上最严重的石油泄漏事件。给大面积的海洋和沿海环境带来了一场高度预期的人为灾害。浮油正在墨西哥湾向北扩散，很可能朝着佛罗里达和亚拉巴马海滩移动，几乎肯定会沿着墨西哥湾沿岸地区的一些地方登陆。石油的小规模和大规模区域影响？的相互作用与动态桑迪海滩环境是未知的。拟议的研究将调查和量化海滩石油相互作用，通过密集的现场数据收集之前和之后立即？登陆？石油。拟议的研究将通过一系列密集的实地数据收集来完成，主要侧重于沉积学方面。预计各政府环境机构将绘制石油登陆的区域分布图。然而，石油垂直混合进入海滩沉积物的过程可能没有得到很好的记录。南佛罗里达大学地质系海岸研究实验室（USF-CRL）除了提供区域范围的影响外，还能够提供关于石油-海滩相互作用的重要信息。

RAPID: Emergency Field Investigation of Oil-Beach Interaction along the Alabama and Florida Beaches Following the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillPing Wang, University of South FloridaEAR-1041868ABSTRACTThe BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred on April 20 2010 and continues to leak, putting this spill on track to become the worst oil spill in US history, imposing a highly anticipated anthropogenic disaster to a large area of marine and coastal environment. The oil is dispersing northward in the Gulf of Mexico, very likely heading toward the Florida and Alabama beaches, with almost a certain landfall along the some parts of the Gulf coast region. Both the small- and large-scale regional effects of the oil?s interaction with the dynamic sandy beach environment are unknown. The proposed study will investigate and quantify beach-oil interaction through intensive field data collection immediately before and after the ?landfall? of the oil. The proposed study will be accomplished through a series of intensive field data collection, focusing primarily on the sedimentological aspect. It is anticipated that regional distribution of the oil landfall will be mapped by various government environmental agencies. However, the processes associated with vertical mixing of the oil into the beach sediment may not be well documented. The Coastal Research Laboratory in the Department of Geology at the University of South Florida (USF-CRL) is well positioned to provide the crucial information on the oil-beach interaction, in addition to the effects at a regional scale.