{"id":35451,"date":"2014-03-26T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=35451"},"modified":"2014-03-26T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:12:06","slug":"texas-oil-spill-tracked-with-new-high-tech-buoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/03\/26\/texas-oil-spill-tracked-with-new-high-tech-buoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Oil Spill Tracked With New High-tech Buoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Texas A&M<\/p>

Near oil spill off Galveston Island, crew prepares to deploy rapid response tracking buoy built by Texas A&M<\/p><\/div>\n

There are over 500 clean-up crew members working in boats and on beaches near where the oil spilled near Texas City on Galveston Bay.<\/p>\n

But determining where some of the oil might still go is being done by experts who aren\u2019t nearby. They\u2019re over 2,000 miles away.<\/p>\n

Doug Helton is in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in the war room the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to help coordinate oil spill responses nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe basic question is where\u2019s the oil going to go, how\u2019s it going to behave and what is it going to look like when it gets there, \u201c Helton told StateImpact Texas.<\/p>\n