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Bob Bea, UC Berkeley professor of civil engineering and an internationally recognized veteran of disaster investigations, shared his assessment of the Deepwater Horizon blowout at an April 17 talk on campus. He called the event a “system disaster” that exemplified a “failure to learn” from past mistakes.
Tag: gulf oil spill
Bob Bea, master of disaster
February 25, 2013:
Civil engineering prof Bob Bea, who leads off testimony this week in the trial of companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, is profiled in Men’s Journal: “The nation’s foremost forensic engineer [is]… the guy to call when levees break or oil rigs explode – to sift through the wreckage, assign blame, and try to prevent the same mistakes again.”
New grant funds research into gulf spill aftermath
September 8, 2011:
Two UC Berkeley researchers are getting $860,000 over three years as part of a research consortium formed after last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Allen Goldstein will study the evaporation of oil into the atmosphere, and Evan Variano will investigate the dispersion of oil in the water column. Goldstein holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Variano is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
