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Today we were in the process of conducting baseline sampling
along the Texas coast in response to the BP oil spill.
We're working on trying to establish the normal conditions
that we see along our coastline.
We're doing that by collecting sediment, water and biota samples,
basically all the different little animals that live in the sand
along in the beach
as well as going through and just surveying
what the general characteristics of the beach are,
you know, how wide it is,
what types of plants or vegetation may be there,
if there's any presence of any oil at all on the beach already
from any other source.
We started up in the Beaumont- Port Arthur area earlier this week
and we hope, weather permitting, that we'll be able to complete
the entire Texas coast by the end of next week.