Aboard the R/V Tioga in Buzzard’s Bay, MA.
Photo: Jayne Doucette, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Quoted in the News
Oil in the Gulf safer, but concerns still linger. Seth Borenstein, Washington Post, April 4, 2023.
Fuel Cleanup Underway After a Rocket Crash in Alaska. Lauren Leffer, Gizmodo, February 23, 2023.
The other risk from the East Palestine disaster. Philip Bump, Washington Post, February 14, 2023.
Fact Check: ALC-0315 Ingredient In Pfizer's COVID Vaccine Is NOT Unsafe. Dana Ford, Lead Stories, February 13, 2023.
Beauty Products Keep Getting Recalled for Benzene. Just How Dangerous Is It? Didi Gluck, Harper’s Bazaar, November 11, 2022.
TikTok Wants You to Make ‘Ecobricks' From Plastic Trash. Should You? Joe Brandt, NBC LX News, July 22, 2022.
The science behind extinguishing the Gulf of Mexico’s ‘ocean fire’. Bani Sapra, WIRED, July 4, 2021.
25,000 Barrels Possibly Laced With DDT Are Found Off California Coast. Heather Murphy, New York Times, April 28, 2021.
Recovery from environmental disasters. Popular Science, February 16, 2021.
Immediate danger of decrepit oil tanker near Yemen. New York Times, July 17, 2020.
Fact check: PepsiCo pulls contentious BVO from Mountain Dew but it isn't a flame retardant. Ian Richardson, USA Today, May 28, 2020.
The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Fueled a Gulf Science Bonanza. Eric Niiler, WIRED, April 22, 2020.
Mysterious oil spill in Fall 2019 along Brazilian coastline. Washington Post, October 22, 2019.
Popular Science
Articles by Christopher Reddy on the science of ocean life and pollution from Oceanus, The Journal of Our Ocean Planet published by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Did Dispersants Help Responders Breathe Easier? August 28, 2017.
While Oil Gently Seeps from the Seafloor. May 14, 2009.
Where Did Deepwater Horizon Oil Go? October 27, 2014.
Still Toxic After All These Years. April 23, 2007.
Oil in our Coastal Back Yard. October 13, 2004.
View more articles featuring Chris in Oceanus’ archive.
Radio Interviews
Garbage patch cleanup. The World with Marco Werman, October 11, 2022.
Mysterious rubber bales found along the Texas coast could be from WWII. NPR’s All Things Considered, November 8, 2021.
Scientists Discover A New Material For Cleaning Up Oil Spills. NPR’s All Things Considered, July 16. 2020.
Navy Turns to Local Scientist to Reduce Oil Spill Risk. NPR’s CAI Living Lab, March 1, 2017.
In Arctic Drilling Debate, A Dispute Over Cleanup Preparedness. NPR’s All Things Considered, May 5, 2015.
Podcasts
The Upper Cape Catch | The Planet, The Truth, And You, April 21, 2023: Chris talks plastic pollution.
BIOmarkers: an organic geochemistry podcast from the Summons Lab at MIT: Season 1; Podcast 6: Chris discusses his career trajectory as a geochemist.
One Drop Leads to Another by Cape Cod Groundwater Guardians: Science Communications and More with Dr. Chris Reddy.
Videos
Communicating Science through Star Trek
TEDxWoodsHole November 11, 2011
In a humorous talk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemical oceanographer Chris Reddy looks at how characters from TV’s original Star Trek series talk about science.
Meet Chris Reddy: A Career Spent Studying Oil Spills (Gulf Dispatches)
Dispatches from the Gulf
This video from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative explores Chris Reddy’s career.
Ocean Encounters: Pollution
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, April 6, 2022
Pollution is a growing threat to the health of the ocean and the lives and livelihoods of people who rely on marine resources worldwide. Hear how a team of scientists and community members responded to a spill of plastic and oil off the coast of Sri Lanka and what is being done to counter the effects of marine pollution more broadly.
