Dr. Jay Lennon, a Microbial Ecologist at the Kellogg Biological Station, was quoted in a recent article in the New York Times about the oil spill in the Gulf. 

The article, "Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Include Many Very, Very Small Ones," can be found online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/science/earth/05microbe.html/?_r=2

The article discusses the role of microbial degradation in breaking down the oil from the spill.