CARTHE

About CARTHE

The Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE) is a research team dedicated to predicting the fate of oil released into our environment to help inform and guide response teams, thereby protecting and minimizing damage to human health, the economy, and the environment.

Our researchers have conducted 4 large-scale field experiments in the Gulf of Mexico to better understand how pollutants like oil are transported from the sight of a spill through open water, across the shelf, and up onto shore. These well coordinated expeditions are some of the largest oceanographic experiments of their kind and generated tens of millions of data points, providing the oceanographic community with important new information that will lead the field forward. The CARTHE modelers use this new observational data to perfect existing models or generate new ones in preparation for a future spill. Experiments.

The CARTHE outreach program engages citizen scientists of all ages through hands-on opportunities to participate in our research. Students can design and build their own drifters through the Design-a-drifter program, participate in the #BayDrift drift card study, or analyze real data right in their own classrooms. Get involved.

Learn more about what we do through our short, fun, and informative VIDEOS (many made by our friends at Waterlust).

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