RAPID: What Counts as Crude Oil?: Measuring the Extent and Effect of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

大卫邦德，新学校大学博士生研究员，由博士安劳拉Stendy的监督，将进行研究的技术扩展什么算作原油在深水钻井和能力的监管机构，科学家和公民作出明智的决定，扩大。邦德精通深水开采的复杂性以及这种复杂性给监管机构带来的困难，他将调查联邦机构在衡量和打击这一深水石油泄漏方面面临的令人生畏的问题。通过参加听证会，阅读报告，采访主要官员和海洋科学家，并参加在墨西哥湾的研究考察，邦德的研究将提供这一重要的，但尚未确定的辩论人种学帐户。他将侧重于有关深水石油泄漏新知识的科学生产和监管接收。他将特别注意正在展开的证据问题，以便：1）说明现有监管结构在处理复杂的深海漏油问题方面的技术限制，2）对新出现的深海原油流动数据来源进行编目（和/或分散剂）及其对海洋生态的影响，第三章有助于我们理解如何调动证据制度来定义紧急脆弱性和我们对它的责任。邦德的研究将有助于理解监管的可能性。管理深水石油开采的成功和失败;以及科学政策学与政治经济学之间关系的新理论。

David Bond, New School University doctoral student researcher, supervised by Dr. Ann Laura Stoler, will conduct research on the technical expansion of what counts as crude oil in deepwater drilling and the ability of regulators, scientists, and citizens to make informed decisions about that expansion. Well-versed in the complexity of deepwater extraction and the difficulties such complexity poses to regulatory agencies, Bond will investigate the daunting problems federal agencies face in measuring and combating this deepwater oil spill. Through attending hearings, reading reports, interviewing key officials and marine scientists, and participating in research expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico, Bond's research will provide an ethnographic account of this consequential and as of yet undetermined debate. He will focus on the scientific production and regulatory reception of new knowledge about deepwater oil spills. He will pay particular attention to unfolding questions of evidence in order to: 1) describe the technical constraints of the existing regulatory structure in relation to the complexity of deepwater oil spills, 2) catalogue emerging sources of data on the deep sea movements of crude oil (and/or dispersants) and its effect on ocean ecology, 3) contribute to our understanding of how regimes of evidence are mobilized to define both urgent vulnerability and our responsibility to it.Bond's research will contribute understanding the possibilities of regulatory success and failure in managing deepwater oil extraction; and to new theories of the relation between a science of science policy and political economy.