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DESCRIPTION:Join artist and biologist Dr.* Brandon Ballengée* for an illust
 rated  \npresentation of his artwork and research focused on the* 2010 Dee
 pwater  \nHorizon (DWH) oil spill’s impact to Gulf of Mexico biodiversity.
 *\n\nThe DWH spill was the largest industrial petrochemical accident in th
 e  \nhistory of the United States and\, because the spill occurred in the 
 deep sea\,  \nits impact on the biota has been difficult to assess. The Gu
 lf of Mexico is  \namong the most important and biologically diverse marin
 e environments in the  \nworld with an estimated 600-1000 species of fishe
 s (77 of which are endemic)  \nand new species being described every year.
  Likewise\, Gulf seafood is an  \nimportant source of food for millions of
  people in North America\, and\, as  \nmarine species migrate following th
 e Gulf Stream\, people throughout Europe  \nrely on these fish for protein
 . As such\, the DWH spill could not have  \noccurred at a worse place\, fr
 om an ecological and economic standpoint. A  \nrecent United States Congre
 ssional Report estimates that\, after clean up  \nefforts\, almost half th
 e oil (over 100 million gallons) remains in the Gulf  \nand the long-term 
 magnitude of the spill is not well understood. \n\nArtist\, biologist and 
 environmental educator\, Brandon Ballengée creates  \ntransdisciplinary ar
 tworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory  \nresearch. Sinc
 e 1996\, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence  \nof devel
 opmental deformities and population declines among amphibians and  \nother
  ectothermic vertebrates. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Researcher in  \n
 the Biological Sciences Department at Louisiana State University studying 
 the  \nimpact on fishes from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. \n\nImage:
  /Collapse/\, 2010-12\, mixed media installation. /Collapse/ consisted  \n
 of more than five hundred large specimen jars with preserved fish\, aquati
 c  \norganisms\, and Deep Water Horizon contaminates stacked into a pyrami
 d. It was  \nmeant to recall the fragile intertrophic relationships betwee
 n Gulf species  \nand the way that the spill is changing this. There were 
 26\,162 individual  \nspecimens in Collapse. Even at this scale\, it was b
 arely a sketch or  \nliterally less than five percent of the known Gulf sp
 ecies. Scattered among  \nthe specimens\, empty containers represented spe
 cies in decline\; visually\,  \nthis was a way to frame absence and sugges
 t a future large-­scale Gulf  \necosystem collapse.
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LOCATION:Williams Center 108
SUMMARY:Brandon Ballengée - Crude Life: An Art and Science Investigation of
  Gulf of  \nMexico Biodiversity after the Spill
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