E The Magazine For Today's Female Executive August 2018 issue

Alana conducting toxicity tests at GeoTech And, I would have known
Engineering in Orange County
that by now the natural
microbes would have already
been breaking down the oil and
cleaning it up. Honestly, I think it's really
sad that they aren't doing anything
like that and that they are instead just
trying to have people pick it up, put it in
orange plastic buckets and haul it away
to pollute another site or wipe rocks
down by hand. It’s like they’re using
cave man technology at a time when
current proven methods are sitting right
there waiting to be used.”
— Alana Tessman
remain unused. Nevertheless, Alana remains
unfazed by the questionable response to the
Santa Barbara spill; she knows the time is coming
for a more enlightened approach to the oil
spills which constantly occur throughout the
USA.
When Alana was pointedly asked the following
question, her response was quick and sure.
What would you do differently if you were in
charge of the Santa Barbara clean-up?
“I would have immediately sprayed the EA
(Enzyme Additive) bioremediation
agent on the spill which would have
immediately lessened the toxicity and
adhesive properties of the oil,
which in turn would have protected
the wildlife,
shoreline, rocks,
etc. ...
LAEO and Alana Tessman working
on parallel tracks have joined forces
How does a 13 year old young scientist,
knowing what she knows about
truly effective oil spill response, get the
attention of the authorities who are supposed
to know better? Luckily she's
gained the attention of the Lawrence
Anthony Earth Organization (LAEO),
which has been leading the way to
more effective and nontoxic oil spill
clean up solutions.
In fact the LAEO had independently
made some of the very same important
observations which Alana has made
over the course of her research. During
the BP spill the LAEO was one of the
very first on the GOM coastline assessing
the damage and looking for
better ways to remediate the worst oil
spill in U.S. history.
That historic environmental disaster further
compelled the LAEO to seek out
every organization, as well as
individual scientist, in the country
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