PIRatE Lab Oil Spill News
note: Please see our blog for most recent coverage. The demands of our field work and teaching commitments translate into our having precious little time to keep abreast of all the news pieces about our team. We therefore typically update this media page infrequently (a few times a year).
Stories are listed in reverse chronological order below. In each section we highlight a few stories we believe best showcase our team’s work, designating those an asterisk (*). If you are not sure where to start, these highlighted stories will provide a great introduction to our work.
NBC4’s Gordon Tokumatsu interviewing Dr. Sean Anderson at El Capitan State Beach on May 20, 2015.
Hall Canyon Oil Spill Media Coverage
Ventura residents upset (KCRW, interview but link to only Twitter; June 30, 2016)
Oil spill expert: environmental damage from Ventura oil spill minimal (SCPR/KPCC; June 27, 2016)
Δ Area Expert Speaks on Spill (VC Star; June 23, 2016)
Cleanup underway after California oil pipeline spill (AP/Salon; June 23, 2016)
Ventura oil spill controlled at about 30,000 gallons; beach not threatened: (VC Star; June 23, 2016)
Ventura oil spill misses the ocean, but damage on land is unclear (Los Angeles Times; June 23, 2016)
Updates: Oil Spill In Ventura County (Los Angeles Times; June 23, 2016)
700 Barrels of Crude Oil Spilled in Ventura Pipeline Leak: Fire Dept. (KTLA; June 23, 2016)
California Oil Pipeline Spills Thousands Of Gallons Of Crude (Reuters/HuffPost; June 23, 2106)
Dr. Sean Anderson being interviewed by reporters via cell phone from Prince Barranca in the hours after the onset of the Hall Canyon Oil Spill, June 23, 2016. Image: AP
Refugio Oil Spill Media Coverage
Longer Term Impacts & Perspective
KCRW wants to answer your questions about oil (KCRW: May 30, 2016)
Refugio spill a year later: Thanks to the repair guy (VC Star Op-Ed; May 21, 2016)
CSU Channel Islands Professor Demonstrates How Pipelines Corrode (KEYT; May 19, 2016)
Δ The Effects of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, One Year Later (Pacific Standard; May 19, 2016)
Why one researcher calls Refugio spill response ‘outdated’ (KCRW; May 18, 2016)
Continuing Impacts & Tarring Across SoCal Beaches
KVTA Morning Show Guest Dr. Sean Anderson (KVTA NewsTalk 1590; July 7, 2015)
New underwater video of reef site near Refugio oil spill (KEYT: July 6, 2015)
Has the oil spill cleanup only scratched the surface? (KCRW; June 9, 2015)
Underwater Camera Kept 500 Yards From Oil Spill Zone (KEYT3: June 5, 2015)
Students Documenting Refugio Oil Spill (KEYT3; June 2, 2015)
KVTA Morning Show Guest Dr. Sean Anderson (KVTA NewsTalk 1590; June 1, 2015)
Tar Balls and Clumps Of Tar (NBC Nightly News, story starts @ 12:24; May 31, 2015)
Tar Balls Trigger Concerns About Endangered Birds (Ventura County Star; May 31, 2015)
Tar Balls Found On More California Beaches (our raw video picked up by NBC News; May 31, 2015)
Ongoing cleanup of tar balls continues at Faria Beach (Ventura County Star; May 30, 2015)
Refugio State Beach Oil Spill (The TrailMaster Blog; May 29, 2015)
Santa Barbara oil spill and its effect on the channel (KCRW; May 29, 2015)
Examining the Impacts of the Oil Spill at Refugio State Beach (OpenROV Explorer’s Google Hangout; May 29, 2015)
Southern California Beaches Closed Due to Mystery Tar Balls (NBC Nightly News; May 28, 2015)
A Struggle to Check the Seafloor Around California’s Oil Spill (Pacific Standard; May 28, 2015)
Initial Spill Coverage
University students study beach impacts from oil spill (KEYT3; May 24, 2015)
Thousands of gallons of oil sopped up from California coast (Environmental Expert; May 22, 2015)
Researchers race clock to collect samples near spill (Ventura County Star; May 23, 2015)
Environmentalists seize on latest California oil spill (Fox News; May 22, 2015)
Pipeline rupture causes oil to spill in California (WSWS; May 22, 2015)
California oil spill: Extensive harm to wildlife not seen; slick moving to sea (Austin American-Statesman; May 22, 2015)
California oil spill: Governor declares state of emergency (American Energy News; May 21, 2015)
7,700 gallons of oil sopped up near Santa Barbara (LA Daily News; May 21, 2015)
Environmentalists seize on latest Santa Barbara oil spill, 46 years after historic disaster (US News & World Report; May 21, 2015)
Santa Barbara Oil Spill Continues On 9 Miles Of Coast (ABC7; May 21, 2015)
Thousands of Gallons of Oil Raked From California Coast After Spill (Time Magazine; May 21, 2015)
HuffingtonPost Live: State of Emergency Declared After the Spill (HuffPost Live Google Hangout Archive; May 22, 2015)
Thousands of gallons of oil sopped up from California coast (Los Angeles Times; May 22, 2015)
Probe into oil spill off CA coast under way (San Diego Union-Tribune; May 21, 2015)
Oil spill: Records tally involved company’s accidents (KPCC; May 21, 2015)
Environmentalists seize on latest Santa Barbara oil spill (AP feed from which many others pulled; May 21, 2015)
Environmentalists Seize on Latest Santa Barbara Oil Spill (New York Times; May 21, 2015)
State officials call for review of oil contracts following spill (ABC7; May 21, 2015)
California Oil Spill: Biologists Eyeing Extent of Damage to Waters, Wildlife (NBC News; May 21, 2015)
State of Emergency Declared for Oil Spill Off Santa Barbara Coast (click video; NBC4; May 21, 2015)
As much as 105,000 gallons of oil spilled in Santa Barbara County (Ventura County Star; May 20, 2015)
Scientist Start Evaluating Environmental Impact of Oil Spill (KEYT3; May 20, 2015)
Kelsey Gerckens of KEYT3 News May 19, 2015
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Media Coverage
Researchers debate oil-spill remedy (Nature, January 2013)
Politicians, scientists, environmental groups comment on BP oil spill anniversary (New Orleans Times-Picayune April 2012)
Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists develop new model for deep-sea oil spills (NSF, April 2012)
New Ecological model for deep-water oil spills (Science Daily, April 2012)
NCEAS Researchers offer new ecological model for Deep-Water Oil Spills (NCEAS, April 2012)
Professor leads oil spill team (Camarillo Acorn, April 2012)
CSU’s COAST, Others Convene at Global PRIMO Sessions to Address Toxins (CSU, May 2011)
Ventura County symposium looks at ongoing crisis in Gulf of Mexico (KCLU, April 2011)
CI to present symposium on environmental disturbances in Gulf of Mexico (CSUCI, Jan 2011)
Gulf Oil Spill Ecotoxicology Working Group (NCEAS, Jan 2011)
CI faculty member leads effort to assess long-term effects of Gulf Oil Spill (Ventura County Star, Oct 2010)
Gulf Recovery in Murky Waters (CSU Voices and Views, Oct 2010)
Dr. Sean Anderson on HuffPost Live Hangout.