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Employing a large research vessel called the Sally Ride, 31 scientists and crew members, and two high-tech autonomous robots they call Roombas, the team used sophisticated sonar to map the ocean bottom and assess how many barrels there are. Despite the fact that the toxic barrels were dumped in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, their existence just became common knowledge this past fall when the Los Angeles Times published a feature on Valentine’s work. But his discovery dates all the way back to 2011 when he first decided to see if the rumors of the barrels were true. In 2013 he made another short t...

The lasting effects of DDT contamination are killing an alarming number of California sea lions.

Dr. David Valentine poses with the Sally Ride research vessel during a trip in 2017 helping responders respond to the Thomas Fire, which impacted Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Reports in old ship logs of thousands of barrels of DDT being dumped into the Catalina Channel during the 1950s were confirmed in 2011 by photographs taken by UC Santa Barbara marine scientist Dr. David Valentine by Donald Morrison Peninsula residents have grown up seeing “Do Not Eat Contaminated Fish” signs at local piers and beaches. The signs warn against catching and eating White Croaker, Black C...

LOS ANGELES — When Californians learned in October that the waters off Santa Catalina Island once served as a dumping ground for thousands of barrels of DDT waste, the ocean science community jumped into action.

Thousands of barrels of DDT and other chemicals were found in the ocean Banned in 1972, DDT devastated marine animals and other wildlife for decades UC San Diego scientists are using robots to scan the seafloor for the toxic tubs The sub-like Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) can run for about 12 hours and then need another half-day to recharge  While one is mapping the seafloor, the other will recharge and share its data