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>> Next we have 33 he told me to call him speaking on like oil spills and beyond using microbes to predict the impact of oil spills. It from 20th 2011 of the largest environmental disasters took place just 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana the Deepwater Horizon oil spill I'm sure all of you have heard of it they made a movie with Mark world Logan it but what is less known is that 750000000 liters of oil leaked from the bottom of the ocean for 3 months before it was finally capped by which time the damage is already done this isn't no way an isolated event every year hundreds of millions of leaders of oil are released into the marine environment as a result of natural oil seeps tanker accident stories or accidents or any other human related activities.

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Just for perspective just the oil input from natural seeps alone is enough to cover the entire world's ocean in oil 20 layers thick This brings us to the obvious question well if that's the case why are we not swimming in oil this is because a complex network of my courage in a sense act together with their environment to degrade this our oil into relatively harmless compounds which then brings us to the next question if someone just took a bucket of oil into the ocean and dumped it all the microbes just take care of it on their own 1st off bad idea 2nd it is not so simple all of the complex mixture of hydrocarbons and not a single my current innocent exists that can degrade all of these components on its own so this is where my thesis comes in I hope to untangle some of these complex interactions of the microbes undergo and then use this knowledge to better predict the impact of oil spills on any environment in order to do this I called it d.n.a. and r.n.a. data from all of the oil impacted environments be the Gulf of Mexico be it Canadian oil platforms or even Antarctica all of these places have experience or oil spills before I dig the d.n.a. and they are in a data because the d.n.a. will tell us who's there the are unable to list what they're doing just like your d.n.a. can be used to infer your traits the microbial d.n.a. can be used in for the traits of the microbes more specifically if they process the gene so acquired for oral degradation and what environmental factors cause them to turn these genes on or off I combine this deny the data along with field data like temperature pressure and real time data to generate machine learning based algorithms that will predict how much oil was there how fast the oil is degrading or if we need to manually intervene to do anything to make the r.l. degree Dacian go faster so the next time if you see something that looks like a reflection of a pretty rainbow on the beach of Gulf of Mexico it's probably not it's an oil slick and that's where we're told to clean up into.