Recovery on Louisiana Coast

October 2010  Helping Mother Nature recover the Louisiana coast may be the best solution according to R. Eugene Turner, a coastal ecologist at Louisiana State University (LSU), in an article titled 'Louisiana revival: Eco-engineering on a giant scale'. '... interfering with nature could backfire. Even just wiping oil off leaves, he says, spreads the toxic residue around. But, [Daniel] Deocampo, a sedimentary geochemist at Georgia State University, Atlanta, and his colleague Kuk-Jeong Chin say leaving the oil will doom the marsh, and are testing ways to give oil-munching bacteria a turboboost. "If we do nothing, all the plants will die," Chin says. "Nature will take too long." ' (Reported by NewScientist -www.newscientist.com)