Northwestern State student lands internship studying BP oil spill at Columbia University

Kate Archer Kent — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:49:57 +0000

A Northwestern State University student is preparing for a prestigious summer internship at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York. Christina Palomo of Los Angeles will travel from Natchitoches to New York later this month to help Columbia scientists study the environmental consequences of the 2010 BP oil spill. The biology major said she’ll work alongside two geochemists.

Conference presents BP Oil Spill report card, two years later

Kate Archer Kent — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:28 +0000

The Environment and Health Council of Louisiana hosts a conference April 18 to highlight research under way on the health of the Gulf two years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The daylong conference is at Nicholls State's Bollinger Memorial Student Union in Thibodaux, La.