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

David Bond是新学院大学的博士生研究员，在Ann Laura Stoler博士的指导下，他将对深水钻井中原油的技术扩展以及监管机构、科学家和公民对这种扩展做出明智决定的能力进行研究。邦德深谙深海石油开采的复杂性，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测量和应对深海石油泄漏时面临的令人生畏的问题。通过参加听证会，阅读报告，采访重要官员和海洋科学家，以及参加墨西哥湾的研究考察，邦德的研究将为这场重大而尚未确定的辩论提供一个民族志的描述。他将专注于科学生产和监管接收有关深水石油泄漏的新知识。他将特别关注证据的展开问题，以便：1)描述与深水石油泄漏的复杂性相关的现有监管结构的技术限制；2)对原油（和/或分散剂）的深海运动及其对海洋生态的影响的新数据来源进行编目；3)有助于我们理解如何动员证据制度来定义紧急脆弱性和我们对此的责任。邦德的研究将有助于理解管理深水石油开采的监管成功和失败的可能性；以及科学政策科学与政治经济学关系的新理论。

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.