Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM
The tragic accident of the Macondo platform operated by British Petroleum (BP) unleashed in 2010 one of the largest oil spills in history, lasting over three months, spilling nearly 500 million liters of oil in one of the most biodiverse ocean regions. This accident revealed the technological defici...
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| author | Juan Carlos Herguera Juan Carlos Herguera Edward M. Peters Julio Sheinbaum Julio Sheinbaum Paula Pérez-Brunius Paula Pérez-Brunius Sharon Z. Herzka Sharon Z. Herzka Alexei Licea-Navarro Alexei Licea-Navarro Francisco Ocampo-Torres Francisco Ocampo-Torres M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Hector García-Nava Hector García-Nava Tomas Salgado Tomas Salgado Rosario Romero-Centeno Rosario Romero-Centeno Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Liliana Pardo-López Liliana Pardo-López Adolfo Gracia Adolfo Gracia |
| author_facet | Juan Carlos Herguera Juan Carlos Herguera Edward M. Peters Julio Sheinbaum Julio Sheinbaum Paula Pérez-Brunius Paula Pérez-Brunius Sharon Z. Herzka Sharon Z. Herzka Alexei Licea-Navarro Alexei Licea-Navarro Francisco Ocampo-Torres Francisco Ocampo-Torres M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Hector García-Nava Hector García-Nava Tomas Salgado Tomas Salgado Rosario Romero-Centeno Rosario Romero-Centeno Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Liliana Pardo-López Liliana Pardo-López Adolfo Gracia Adolfo Gracia |
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| description | The tragic accident of the Macondo platform operated by British Petroleum (BP) unleashed in 2010 one of the largest oil spills in history, lasting over three months, spilling nearly 500 million liters of oil in one of the most biodiverse ocean regions. This accident revealed the technological deficiencies for the control of a spill in deep waters of the hydrocarbon industry. Simultaneously it showed important gaps in knowledge to predict the propagation and fate of the large volumes of hydrocarbons at depth and on the surface ocean and, more importantly, on their impact on the great ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico. The necessity to understand and predict the transport, fate and ecosystem-level impacts of large oil spills in the southern Gulf of Mexico, a key region for oil exploration and extraction, led policymakers, scientists, and industry representatives from PEMEX (the Mexican oil company) to jointly launch an ocean observation project (2015-22) aimed to provide a multi-layered environmental baseline, develop a modern monitoring and computational modeling capacity and promote scientific understanding of the marine environment throughout the Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The initiative, led by the Research Consortium for the Gulf of Mexico (CIGoM), brought together more than 300 multidisciplinary researchers from more than a two dozen institutions in Mexico and abroad, including the Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) as the leading institution, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in Mérida, the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), and the Centre for Engineering and Industrial Development (CIDESI). Financial support was provided by the National Council for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Energy Hydrocarbon Fund. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1900fae14a54655b80e5048214af9d32023-03-27T05:39:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452023-03-011010.3389/fmars.2023.10913721091372Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOMJuan Carlos Herguera0Juan Carlos Herguera1Edward M. Peters2Julio Sheinbaum3Julio Sheinbaum4Paula Pérez-Brunius5Paula Pérez-Brunius6Sharon Z. Herzka7Sharon Z. Herzka8Alexei Licea-Navarro9Alexei Licea-Navarro10Francisco Ocampo-Torres11Francisco Ocampo-Torres12M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo13M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo14Victor M. Vidal-Martínez15Victor M. Vidal-Martínez16Hector García-Nava17Hector García-Nava18Tomas Salgado19Tomas Salgado20Rosario Romero-Centeno21Rosario Romero-Centeno22Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo23Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo24Liliana Pardo-López25Liliana Pardo-López26Adolfo Gracia27Adolfo Gracia28Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCEMIE-Océano A. C, Ciudad Universitaria, C.U., Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, CINVESTAV-IPN, Unidad Mérida, Mérida, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, CINVESTAV-IPN, Unidad Mérida, Mérida, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoUniversidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC)-Instituto de Investigaciones Oceanológicas, Ensenada, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoCentro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial (CIDESI), Querétaro, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoInstituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio Climático, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoInstituto de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y Cambio Climático, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoDepartamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cuernavaca, MexicoConsorcio de Investigación del Golfo de México (CIGoM), Ensenada, MexicoInstituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, MexicoThe tragic accident of the Macondo platform operated by British Petroleum (BP) unleashed in 2010 one of the largest oil spills in history, lasting over three months, spilling nearly 500 million liters of oil in one of the most biodiverse ocean regions. This accident revealed the technological deficiencies for the control of a spill in deep waters of the hydrocarbon industry. Simultaneously it showed important gaps in knowledge to predict the propagation and fate of the large volumes of hydrocarbons at depth and on the surface ocean and, more importantly, on their impact on the great ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico. The necessity to understand and predict the transport, fate and ecosystem-level impacts of large oil spills in the southern Gulf of Mexico, a key region for oil exploration and extraction, led policymakers, scientists, and industry representatives from PEMEX (the Mexican oil company) to jointly launch an ocean observation project (2015-22) aimed to provide a multi-layered environmental baseline, develop a modern monitoring and computational modeling capacity and promote scientific understanding of the marine environment throughout the Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The initiative, led by the Research Consortium for the Gulf of Mexico (CIGoM), brought together more than 300 multidisciplinary researchers from more than a two dozen institutions in Mexico and abroad, including the Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) as the leading institution, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in Mérida, the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), and the Centre for Engineering and Industrial Development (CIDESI). Financial support was provided by the National Council for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Energy Hydrocarbon Fund.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1091372/fullocean observationsenvironmental baselineocean and atmospheric modelingGulf of Mexicomultidisciplinary project |
| spellingShingle | Juan Carlos Herguera Juan Carlos Herguera Edward M. Peters Julio Sheinbaum Julio Sheinbaum Paula Pérez-Brunius Paula Pérez-Brunius Sharon Z. Herzka Sharon Z. Herzka Alexei Licea-Navarro Alexei Licea-Navarro Francisco Ocampo-Torres Francisco Ocampo-Torres M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo M. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Victor M. Vidal-Martínez Hector García-Nava Hector García-Nava Tomas Salgado Tomas Salgado Rosario Romero-Centeno Rosario Romero-Centeno Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo Liliana Pardo-López Liliana Pardo-López Adolfo Gracia Adolfo Gracia Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM Frontiers in Marine Science ocean observations environmental baseline ocean and atmospheric modeling Gulf of Mexico multidisciplinary project |
| title | Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM |
| title_full | Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM |
| title_fullStr | Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM |
| title_short | Ocean monitoring, observation network and modelling of the Gulf of Mexico by CIGOM |
| title_sort | ocean monitoring observation network and modelling of the gulf of mexico by cigom |
| topic | ocean observations environmental baseline ocean and atmospheric modeling Gulf of Mexico multidisciplinary project |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1091372/full |
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