U.S. company helps China monitor oil spill.

AuthorWilliams, Robert H.
PositionTECH TALK: A TIP-SHEET ON THE LATEST GADGETS

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Following last December's environmental disaster off the coast of South Korea, Applied Science Associates Inc. of Narragansett, R.I., provided computer models and simulations to China's oil spill emergency response center.

The collision of a tanker and a crane-carrying barge 60 miles south of Seoul saw some 10,500 metric tons of oil flow into the sea.

ASA's contribution predicted the direction...

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