In a paper published online on September 2nd 2010, in the prestigious journal Science, Mezic, together with Sophie Loire, a postdoctoral fellow who works with Mezic and colleagues at the software development company Aimdyn, Inc. in Santa Barbara and at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, describe how they predicted the movement of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20.UCSB Press Release:
