If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Marine wildlife experts discuss 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the importance of the Gulf of Mexico in the US energy economy. Also addressed are the impacts of oil on marine ecosystems, the costs of the spill on the regional economy, and the risks associated with oil drilling in the US. The spill began on April 20, 2010, and for nearly 3 months, oil flowed into the Gulf before the well was capped. Currents in the Gulf continue to move oil throughout the ecosystem, and cleanup is predicted to take years. It is not clear that full environmental restoration will ever be possible. Panelists include Ilze Berzins (Executive Vice President of the Shedd Aquarium), Ihor Hlohowskyj (environmental biologist and ecological risk assessor at Argonne National Laboratory), and Larry McKinney (Executive Director of The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies). The discussion is moderated by Reuben Keller, lecturer in the University of Chicago Program on the Global Environment. The World Beyond the Headlines is a project of the Center for International Studies, which brings scholars, journalists, and world leaders to the University to discuss issues of current global importance. For more information on this event, visit cis.uchicago.edu/events/2010-2011/lessons-from-the-gulf Information on the entire The World Beyond the Headlines series can be found at cis.uchicago.edu/wbh This program was organized by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by the Program on the Global Environment and the Shedd Aquarium. November 3, 2010.

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