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HURRICANE Vol. 90, Issue 29 | Jan. 26 - Jan. 29, 2012
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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI IN CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SINCE 1929
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Researchers examine, publish study on oil spill Results support official estimates of leaked gas BY KYLIE BANKS | SENIOR NEWS WRITER
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These free events are sponsored entirely by community organizations, grants and voluntary donations from audience members. In doing so, the company is carrying out its mission of promoting literacy and appreciation of the arts through free performances of Shakespeare ’s work. Stovall sought to bright out the comedy in the production of “A Midsummer Night ’s Dream. ” “The actors kind of just owned the magic in the show, ” she said.
new study conducted by the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) has led to a better estimate of the amount of oil that escaped during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Elliot Atlas, a professor of marine and atmospheric chemistry at RSMAS and one of the authors of the study, published the results in the online version of “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ” To gather the data, researchers flew over sites in the Gulf of Mexico. “The researchers collect air in stainless steel canisters that are either operated automatically or activated on command from one of the onboard scientists, ” Atlas said. Atlas worked with numerous researchers during this study, including Donald Blake, a chemistry professor at the University of California Irvine. “The study was a quick one to implement because the aircraft used was already outfitted with lots of measurement gear when the Deep Horizon problem began, ” Blake said. By analyzing the air collected in canisters, researchers were able to estimate that oil leaked out at a rate of 11,130 tons per day. The official estimate was 11,350 tons per day. Researchers looked at the amount of gases, such as methane and benzene, to determine the rate of the oil spill. “If one knew the composition of the oil that was leaking, then one can assume that the rate of escape of gases from the surface water was equivalent to the rate that the oil was leaking from the well, ” Atlas said.
SEE MIDSUMMER, PAGE 10
SEE OIL SPILL, PAGE 4
MARLENA SKROBE // Photo Editor
IN CHARACTER: (From left to right) Laura Ruchala, who plays Titania, Mick McGuire, who plays Oberon, Bree-Ana Obst, who plays Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” sit outside Sandbar.
Shakespeare in the Grove Festival offers free performances of Shakespearean play BY LYSSA GOLDBERG | ASSISTANT EDITOR
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ncient Athens comes to South Florida in a slapstick comedy with Elizabethan f lair, as Shakespeare Miami performs “A Midsummer Night ’s Dream ” through Feb. 4. The Winter Shakespeare Festival is the only Shakespeare in the Park event in the world to be held in January, artistic director Colleen Stovall said. “My goal is to bring people together in the community to create theater and to volunteer to make it happen, ” Stovall said. “That doesn ’t mean just amateur theater – we have professional actors. ”
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