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SPILL: Not just fish, fowl at risk
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Efforts to disperse oil in the Gulf have
been done with a variety of dispersants,
which Miller said are basically soap. The
dispersants so long as they are not
toxic themselves make it easier for
insoluble oil to dissolve in water by break
ing clumps of oil into small particles.
He said because of the way the food
chain is, if prey animals ingest oil
or even a small amount of disper
sant, the larger predators that eat
them will accumulate tenfold the
amount of oil and toxins eaten by
their prey.
“Inside this goo, everything
dies. Nothing can survive this,”
Miller said. “None of [the dis
persed oil] is good for them, but
at least it gives them a fighting
chance.”
Robert Bringolf, assistant pro
fessor in the Wamell School of Forestry
and Natural Resources, said crude oil is
a mixture of toxic compounds, many of
which can accumulate in animal tissues.
He said a group of Wamell research
ers looking at water birds might be see
ing these effects firsthand.
“Oil could be devastating to birds,
fish, shellfish, aquatic mammals and
other wildlife.” Bringolf said in an e-mail
interview. "Estuaries and coastal marsh
es are areas of great biological diversity
and are especially important because
they serve as nursery areas for many
saltwater fish species.”
Miller said because marshes, such as
those in Louisiana seeing the effects of
the oil spill, are flat, water pushes the oil
farther in and more pervasively than if
the coastline were rocky.
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see and do something about,” he said.
Unfortunately, Miller added, birds and
mammals make up only a small portion
of marine life. Most of the organisms
calling the oceans home are the micro
scopic bacteria and plankton the sea
life beginning the food chain.
“It’s all connected,” he said. “Just
because you can’t hear the screams of
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“It appears that about May 20
or so the surface patch started to be
impacted by the Loop Current,” Miller
said. “The latest shot shows the oil mov
ing south of the west coast of Florida.”
Judging by the sequence of water
from the Mississippi River leaving the
Gulf in 10 days t Miller said Georgians
might soon expect to see a "dilute light
oil” about 70 to 80 miles off the state's
coast.
However, Miller said, plumes such as
those Joye is studying might not be sub
ject to the same currents as surface oil.
Nick Ameen of the U.S. Coast Guard
at the St. Petersburg Command Center
said the chances of oil reaching Georgia’s
coastline were slim to none.
“There’s no danger anymore of the oil
spill affecting the East Coast,” Ameen
said. “There’s no longer a need to put
precautions in place for that.”
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they’re not dying.”
Georgia’s marine life faces a
slim possibility of being affected
by the oil spill, but only if the
gunk gets swept into the Florida
Loop Current, Miller said.
He said this current varies in
formation and size throughout
the year, but according to data as
recent as May 30, the current is
starting to go up into the Gulf.
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▲ The State Botanical Gardens are just one
of the proposed program takens off the chop
ping block. However, other cuts may come.
TUITION: Adams raises
costs to hire new staff
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Tuition Plan, and new students in summer 2010 and
beyond will continue to pay a special institutional
fee as a means to help maintain academic quality in
the face of significant reductions to the University
System’s budget for fiscal year 2011.
Programs such as Georgia 4-H and The State
Botanical Garden, which were originally slated to be
cut entirely, will remain a part of the University,
though internal cuts might have to be made, Adams
said.
“We did not make those proposals as cuts, and we
would never have proposed them, but we were required
to lay out cuts of that magnitude and there was sim
ply no way we could do what we were asked to do
otherwise,” he said.
Maggie Kilgo, one of only a smattering of University
students present at the meeting, questioned where
additional funds could be found to further close the
budget gap between fiscal years 2010 and 2011.
“Why is it that, given our budgetary allocations, it
seems to be that high pay of administration and fac
ulty seems to be a higher priority than other things
like the quality of my education?” she asked, referenc
ing Adams’ pay as being one of the highest amongst
the University’s peer institutions.
Adams said he did not believe Kilgo's numbers
were correct and that he was not even the highest
paid college president in Georgia.
Adams said no money from budget A will be used
to offset cuts to budget B, and said he hopes the
tuition increase will fill most of the gap.
He also announced that as of now, there were no
furlough days set in the budget.
“My best judgment is that barring some com
pletely unforeseen set of circumstances these are
the numbers we will operate at in 2011,” Adams said.
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By PATRICK HOOPER
The Red & Black
Though the University is
home to the Georgia
Museum of Natural History,
this is not the only place
where students can find
Georgia history on campus.
The Hargrett Rare Book
and Manuscript. Library,
located on the third floor of
the main library, is playing
host to its annual natural
history exhibit. This year’s
exhibit features documents
by and about the engineer
James W. Woodruff Sr.
The exhibit will eqjoy its
sixth year at the University,
commemorating the life
and works of the man
known as “the Father of
the Chattahoochee.”
“We drive by the river all
the time, but we don’t see
the nooks and crannies and
the sun on the water,” Mary
Brooks, Hargrett’s director
emerita, said.
The many books, news
papers and plaques put on
display to present Woodruff
to the public present him
as a man deeply opposed
to waste, whether it is pol
lution or wasted effort.
Woodruff worked to pro
mote a beautiful, useful
and navigable
Chattahoochee River
everyone could eqjoy. His
efforts paid off, as he was
appointed the head of the
Apalachlcola-
Chattahoochee-Flint
Project, placing dams all
along the Chattahoochee
to harness its hydroelectric
power and open it up to
naturalists and tourists.
Brooks said the exhibit
has “a focus on tourism,
recreation and industry”
and is especially important
to today’s students in the
face of the Gulf oil spill.
Woodruff shares the
space with the husband
and wife team of Joe and
Monica Cook.
The environmentally
conscious Cooks published
“River Song: A Journey
down the Chattahooche
and Apalachicola River,” a
photographic account of
their 1995 kayak trip down
the two rivers. The Cooks
used the book as an oppor
tunity to appeal to a young
er generation in the name
of protecting the planet.
The Cooks bring a light
er side to the exhibit with
hand-drawn doodles and
thank-you cards from
young students who
learned something from
their book when the Cooks
took their book on an edu
cation tour around
America.
Brooks said if those stu
dents were 10-year-olds at
the time they wrote the let
ters, they could be in col
lege now.
The library administra
tion arrived at their deci
sion to make the Woodruff
exhibit a regular display
after the James Woodruff
Foundation expressed
interest.
The Hargrett Library
relies on support from the
University for the binding
that goes into its staff, sup
plies and administration,
but this is not the only
source of binding for the
library, said Toby Graham,
director of the Hargrett
Library.
“We strive for a mix of
state and private support,”
Graham said.
The Hargrett Library
also plays host to historical
photographs, the University
archives - which span more
than two centuries -and a
rotating schedule of events
meant to illuminate stu
dents on some of the lesser
known sides of life.
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