by Susan Odom

Since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, also referred to as the BP oil spill, occurred in 2010, scientists have been searching for millions of gallons of unaccounted oil — 11 to 30 percent of the oil estimated to have been spilled — in the Gulf of Mexico.

My research aims to answer questions related to environmental change and energy resources through field and ship-based examinations of the sedimentary rock record.