A statistical representation of oil spill fate in the Salish Sea (Part 2).

Summary: Scientists used ship tracking data and computer models to see what would happen if oil spilled in the Salish Sea. They ran 10,000 different tests using real weather, ocean currents, and ship traffic from 2015 to 2018. They looked at three types of oil to see how it breaks down, spreads, and washes ashore. They found that the risk of an oil spill changes a lot depending on the season, where the ships are, and how the ocean water moves in different areas.