Recently, two researchers with Brookfield Zoo received prestigious awards for their work in the field. Their current work focuses on the impacts of major oil spills on marine life.
Susana Cárdenas-Alayza is the director of the Punta San Juan Program in Peru where she is helping recovery efforts after the Repsol oil spill. She says it’s crucial to have baseline information when assessing the damage to the wildlife caused by an oil spill.
She and her team were able to start the process of determining exactly how the wildlife was affected by the spill. “Being able to assess the damage and understand what needed to be done for mitigation or restoration required having knowledge of how much injury there had been to the dolphin population and the background information just wasn’t there,” Wells said. “So that meant that the scientists had to do a lot of modeling, which involves a lot of assumptions and that’s never as good as having actual empirical data.
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