Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 149, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110527
Keywords
Deepwater Horizon; Oil; Transport; Pollution; Texas; Tarball
Funding
- Texas General Land Office through Improving Hydrodynamic Predictions of Surface Currents Near the Texas Coast Used for Rapid Oil Spill Response - Phase 5 [18-132-000-A673]
- Texas General Land Office through Extending and Improving Texas Bay/Estuary Oil Spill Simulations [18-133-000-A674]
- Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative through the Consortium for Simulation of Oil-Microbial Interactions in the Ocean (CSOMIO) [SA 18-10]
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Following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill, oil residues were found in all five Gulf states of the United States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida). However, only a small amount was found in Texas, leading to speculation that it may have arrived there via ship through bilge water instead of naturally via currents. We report on a numerical modeling effort to simulate surface drifters during and after the DWH spill to demonstrate that surface water parcels - and therefore oil carried by those parcels - could reasonably have reached Texas waters at the appropriate time and location from known oiled locations without human interference. We additionally give context for the conditions in 2010 through a study of summer connectivity with the Galveston Bay coastline, which shows that in some years oil from the DWH pipe likely would not have reached Texas.
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