Posts for tag "Refugio Oil Spill"

  • An AVIRIS-NG visible-light aerial view of the Refugio Incident oil spill near Santa Barbara, California. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

    NASA Tech Helped Refugio Oil Spill Response

    As a result of the Plains All American Pipeline spill on May 19, about 21,000 gallons of oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean and nearly 101,000 landed on Refugio State Beach, according to LiveScience. Since that time,...

    • Posted July 17, 2015

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  • Oil from the Refugio Oil Spill. (Credit: Zackmann08/CC BY-SA 3.0)

    Scientists monitoring around Refugio Oil Spill

    Following the rupture of an oil pipeline north of California’s Refugio State Beach, scientists with the University of California, Santa Barbara, are monitoring its effects, according to a release. The oil spill sent tens of thousands of...

    • Posted June 2, 2015

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