Can you start by talking a little bit about the study? What was it about? What did it find?

Sure, sure.

So I guess I should start by saying how unique the Deepwater Horizon spill was, not just for its size, but also its debt.

So I'm not sure everybody realizes how deep in the ocean we're drilling for oil now.

So the oil spill happened in April 2010, started with a fire on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which is actually a ship, but that has a pipe that goes down to the bottom a mile deep.

So at the seafloor, the pipe broke off, released anywhere between four and 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf.

So NOAA was charged with assessing the natural resource damage from the spill and This spill, it encompassed such a wide range of habitats from the coastal zone that everyone's more familiar with to the deep ocean of the Gulf.

And what do you hope this study accomplishes? I mean, what do you hope people take away from these findings?