Brown, Joseph E.Exxon USA2010-02-152010-02-151975http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/22530pgs. 26-31Twenty-three scientists and thirty-one graduate student assistants team up for two years to answer a question long debated by ecologists but never before as definitively studied by scientists: What effect if any does long-term offshore oil exploration and production have on the marine environment? This article is written with the study approximately 90 percent complete.oil pollutionenvironmental impactpollution effectsplanktonhydrocarbonsoyster reefsbenthosaquatic plantscarbonoil and gasoilsedimentsbiotaaquatic communitiesfoulingfouling organismsArticle