This method takes into consideration how the methane is broken down, oxidization, which takes molecular oxygen out of the environment. This method was used previously to examine the population of methylotrophs, however in this case the dissolved oxygen levels were used in order to determine where the methane was being actively broken down. The information gathered, lead researchers to discover that the plumes were in fact moving. Although restricted to depths of over 700 ft due to the depth of the plumes, researchers were later able to position bin sites outside of their initial search zone and could document the dispersion of the methane. Later being able to produce the following map of the gulf and the diffusion
This method takes into consideration how the methane is broken down, oxidization, which takes molecular oxygen out of the environment. This method was used previously to examine the population of methylotrophs, however in this case the dissolved oxygen levels were used in order to determine where the methane was being actively broken down. The information gathered, lead researchers to discover that the plumes were in fact moving. Although restricted to depths of over 700 ft due to the depth of the plumes, researchers were later able to position bin sites outside of their initial search zone and could document the dispersion of the methane. Later being able to produce the following map of the gulf and the diffusion