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And it s important to remember that that a lot of that oil now is not floating on the surface, is not sticking to the marshs, but it is existing down at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. we recently published a paper documenting that some of that oil is on the sea floor. oceanographer mandy joy is using robot toes track the remaining oil. we collect a lot of sediment. we bring it back to the lab for experiments. the only way we can do it is to go out, collect sediment cores and then you can say, okay, we found oil here, here and here and then we extrapolate and came up with about 10 million gallons. and the area was as big as the state of rhode island, basically. it s bigger than that. research from joy and others shows the oil is scattered in patches across more than 1,200 square miles of sea bed. that stuff is not going to stay put. it s going to move around. ....

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