Drilling for oil: How does the US extract natural resources from the ocean floor – and is it worth the risks? (PDF)
Last April 20, an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig – a platform the size of two football fields moored in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig, operated by energy giant BP, had just placed a temporary seal on the oil well it was drilling. A more permanent production platform was planned to extract […]
First records of golden trevally (Gnathodon speciosus, Carangidae), sharp-tail mola (Masturus lanceolatus, Molidae) and evidence for white shark (Carcharodon carcharias, Lamnidae) in the Galápagos islands, Ecuador (PDF)
In 1995, a complete survey of the fish collection in the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) Museum (Gala´pagos Islands, Ecuador) was undertaken. Five specimens represented possible new records to the archipelago, but insufficient material was available at CDRS to confirm identification. On 5 November 2007, the specimens were removed from the CDRS fish collection under […]
Proximate measurements of acoustic emissions associated with the installation and operation of an exploration jack-up drilling-rig in the North Sea (PDF)
Underwater sound recordings were made from the Noble Kolskaya jack-up gas-exploration drilling-rig in the German region of the Dogger Bank, North Sea. The aim was to document received levels, characteristics, and range-dependence of sounds produced by the rig’s site installation and drilling during the winter. Sound pressure levels (SPLs) generated by the Kolskaya were similar […]
