UC Berkeley graduate student, Thomas Azwell is helping to restore the Gulf of Mexico's marshes after they were severely damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from April to July of 2010. Partnering with researchers and agencies in the Gulf, the Environmental Science student is staking tubes of cotton netting stuffed with pre-composted sugar cane fiber into the dying marshes of Louisiana, testing whether the environmentally sustainable waste material can give a larger variety of plants a better chance at healing the oil-damaged wetlands.
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http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/gulf-spill-spurs-student-research/
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations