Giant vacuum to help bugs in oiled marshes? (3:44)

Environmental impacts of oil spills (main)

Published: March 3, 2011, 12:00 am

Updated: March 5, 2011, 9:36 pm

Source: National Geographic

Topics:

Environmental impacts of oil spills (main) Deepwater Horizon Disaster (main)

Date of Video:Sept 20, 2010

Using huge hoses, researchers are vacuuming up marsh bugs along the oiled Gulf coast (America's Gulf Coast: a long term recovery plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill). By comparing their samples to bugs collected before the spill (Oil spill), teams hope to determine the effects of oil on creatures near the bottom of the food web.

Citation

Carroll, C. (2011). Giant vacuum to help bugs in oiled marshes? (3:44). Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Giant_vacuum_to_help_bugs_in_oiled_marshes?_(3:44)