Field Notes: Oil seeps deep into marshes

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Field Notes: Oil seeps deep into marshes
By Kerry Sanders, NBC News correspondent

GRAND ISLE, La. - Five miles into the Louisiana marshes, a team of scientists from Tulane University motors along on a flat-bottomed aluminum jon boat.

Here, deep into the marshes and well past the oil-soaking booms where few independent scientists have ventured, the team has made a disheartening discovery: oil.

Dr. Michael Blum, a coastal marsh ecologist, said he had received reports from fishermen that oil had penetrated up to 17 miles into the marshes.

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