'Mass of oil' will wash ashore in Alabama and Mississippi, says scientist | al.com

'Mass of oil' will wash ashore in Alabama and Mississippi, says scientist | al.com: "One of the key scientists advising federal officials on the fate of the ongoing spill from the oil rig that exploded last week said there was no question that a 'mass of oil' will wash ashore in Alabama and Mississippi in a matter of days.

But the marshes of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish will likely receive the heaviest dose of crude, according to Gregory William Stone, director of the Coastal Studies Institute at Louisiana State University and the creator of a scientific model that predicts how winds, waves and surface currents behave in the Gulf of Mexico."