Carolyn Ruppel PhD on Methane Hydrates (Part 2) HD

Interview (excerpt) with Carolyn Ruppel, PhD, Chief, USGS Gas Hydrates Project, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. (Part 2 of 6) In this video, Ruppel discusses newly described areas in the Barents Sea where pockmarks have been discovered on the sea floor. These may be indications of methane releases from deposits that formed under an ice sheet that covered the area during the glacial maximum. “That is a new environment,” Ruppel says, “but that doesn’t mean we need to panic about the amount of methane that’s coming out.”