“We have a responsibility to protect these environments, simply because we can” – Dr. Erik Cordes, Assistant Professor of Biology at Temple University, speaking at the Chemical Heritage Foundation last night on deep sea coral ecosystems.
After the Deep Water Horizon exploded and sank in 2010, Dr. Cordes visited coral habitats on the sea floor near the Macondo wellhead in an attempt to understand how they were impacted by the spill.
The federal government protects deep sea coral communities (when it knows their location) by not allowing drilling within the community. However, wells may be drilled as close as only a few hundred yards away from the coral.
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