{"id":1451,"date":"2012-06-07T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-06-07T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T18:05:25","slug":"national-geographic-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Engineering received national visibility when faculty members Prabhakar Clement and Joel Hayworth in the Department of Civil Engineering were featured in National Geographic daily news to discuss finding traces of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the sands of Orange Beach, Ala., as recently as February. The researchers have been investigating the effects of the oil spill on Alabama\u2019s Gulf coast since 2010. \u201cWe could have collected as many tar balls as we wanted, from less than one centimeter up to four centimeters \u2014 or .4 to 1.6 inches \u2014 in diameter,\u201d Clement told National Geographic. \u201cAnd these are really soft tar balls that are decaying, so there are probably also millions of tiny fragments that we can\u2019t even see. I collected over 1,000 tar balls within [an area of] about 10 miles in five hours. What does that mean? I don\u2019t know. What are the health ramifications? I don\u2019t know. But this clearly demonstrates the magnitude of the [ongoing] problem attributable to Deepwater Horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn Engineering received national visibility when faculty members Prabhakar Clement and Joel Hayworth in the Department of Civil Engineering were featured in National Geographic daily news to discuss finding traces of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the sands of Orange Beach, Ala., as recently as February. 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