Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Archived Links & Information

Persons reporting oiled wildlife, please call 1-866-557-1401 and leave a message. To report oiled shoreline or to request volunteer information, please call 1-866-448-5816. To discuss spill-related damage, please call 1-800-440-0858.

• Gulf States Contact Information for Deep Horizon Oil Spill
• Restore the Gulf

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Response/Recovery | Legal Issues | Oil and Wildlife | Volunteer Opportunities | Maps and Map Services | Tools | Contract Services | Additional Sources

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[ Info last updated: September 24, 2010 ]

Response/Recovery

• Second Federal Analysis Gives Further Clues about Location and Movement of Subsurface Oil
• How to report an oil spill
• Responding to oil spills in coastal marshes
• Recreational boaters contending with the oil spill
• Oil spill issues: What to do and why ( Spanish version , Vietnamese version )
• Information concerning inquiries pertaining to the current approved list of oil spill remediation agents, or the process of having a new product considered . (EPA)
• Response in Video
• NOAA’s Science Mission – Deepwater Horizon

Legal Issues:

• The Mississippi Bar Disaster Legal Information Guide (fact sheet)
• Recovery of Public Natural Resources by the Federal and State Governments in the Event of an Oil Spill (fact sheet)
• Oil Spill Legal Issues – Alabama
• If You Suffer Damages Because of an Oil Spill – Louisiana
• Oil Spill Legal Issues – Mississippi
• Exercise Caution when Making Oil Spill Compensation Decisions – Texas (Spanish version)
• Exercise Caution when Making Legal Decisions Related to Damages from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – Florida

Oil and Wildlife:

• Gulf of Mexico wildlife
• The effects of oil on wildlife (Wildlife Health Center)
• Effects of oil on wildlife (NOAA)
• Risk to wildlife (New York Times graphic)
• Impact of oil on marine mammals and sea turtles
• Oil spill response training
• Response and Rescue Plans for Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles
• International Bird Rescue Research Center
• Fish and Wildlife Collection Reports
• Deepwater Horizon and the Brown Pelican
• Helping Oiled Wildlife: What Seems Helpful Can Be Harmful

Volunteer Opportunities:

• MobileBayKeeper.org (Alabama)
• Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (Alabama)
• The Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (Alabama)
• VolunteerFlorida.org (Florida)
• TampaBayWatch.org (Florida)
• Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Volunteer Program (Louisiana)
• Oil spill volunteer registration (Louisiana)
• Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (Louisiana)
• Training and volunteer opportunities (Louisiana)
• Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (Louisiana)
• Pascagoula River Audubon Center (Mississippi)
• VolunteerMississippi.org (Mississippi)
• Gulf Coast Oil Spill Volunteers (Facebook)
• Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research
• Training Marine Oil Response Workers

Maps and Map Services:

• Mapping the Response to the BP Oil Spill
• Gulf Spill Mapper (beta)
• Maps for Oil Spill Response
• Satellite imagery of the oil spill is posted each afternoon on the Louisiana State University Earth Scan Lab’s website. Truecolor and Ch2 images are available.
• Oil spill animation demonstration (Requires GoogleEarth)
• Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
• How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? (comparative map tool)
• Gulf Oil Spill Tracker (Ocean Conservancy/Skytruth)
• Marine Protected Areas in Proximity to Deepwater Horizon
• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trajectory Ensemble Forecast
• These Louisiana state water closure maps were created for the benefit of recreational fishermen who use lease blocks as a tool for fishing locations: Cameron and Vermillion ; Lafourche and Plaquemines ; St. Bernard ; Terrebonne and Lafourche ; Vermilion Bay Area
• Louisiana Gulf Coast
• Oyster Closure Areas 

Tools:

• Multipurpose Marine Cadastre – Supplies baseline information needed for marine spatial planning efforts
• Legislative Atlas – Displays maps of ocean and coastal laws and provides access to summaries of state and federal laws via an interactive Web application
• C-CAP Land Cover Atlas (Beta) – Enables users to view regional C-CAP land cover data and explore land cover changes and trends
• Benthic Habitat Atlas of Coastal Texas – Displays shallow-water habitat for Texas coastal bays in an interactive viewer
• Topographic and Bathymetric Data Inventory – Enables users to locate and learn about the best available elevation data sets for their area
• Coastal Ecosystem Program – Provides data on bathymetry, rigs, pipelines, managed species and oyster habitat for Texas and Louisiana, plus sea grass for the entire Gulf.
• Ecosystem Data Assembly Center
• National Weather Service Ocean Prediction Center
• Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO )
• Northern Gulf of Mexico NMFS (NGOMNFS)
• Naval Research Laboratory (IASNFS )
• Gulf of Mexico HYCOM data
• LSU Resources – Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
• Oil Spill Academic Taskforce
• Florida Deepwater Horizon Response
• Commercial Fisheries Water Quality Sampling Methods & Procedures
• Information and activities for students and teachers who'd like to learn more about oil spills or hazardous chemical accidents.
• Louisiana Sea Grant has an online forum – or bulletin board system (BBS) – where GOM researchers collecting samples in the field can coordinate their efforts. The forum section can be accessed at http://sg-server.lsu.edu/forums/ . Researchers wanting to coordinate their collection trips should post threads under the “Research Sample Collection” topic. Using the forum requires registration, which only takes a few minutes to complete. Once registered, users can create threads, post and respond to messages and maintain a profile.

Contract Services:

• Coastal Geospatial Services Contract – A FAR Part 36, Indefinite Quantity , Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ), Architectural and Engineering Contract vehicle to provide geospatial services

Additional Resources:

• NOAA websites related to Deepwater Horizon Response
• Coastal Lidar – Lidar data sets contributed by many different entities and groups. The Center standardizes and distributes the data in user-specified formats, resolutions and datums
• Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Regional Land Cover – A nationally standardized database of land cover and land change information developed for the coastal regions of the United States. C-CAP products inventory coastal intertidal areas, wetlands and adjacent uplands
• National Vector Shorelines – Vector shoreline data from NOAA and other federal agencies
• Spatial Trends in Coastal Socioeconomics – Time-series, geo-referenced demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the last four decadal censuses (1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000) as well as data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), 1969 through 2000
• Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) Boundaries (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Dewberry) – Boundaries from a defined set of geographic coastal barrier units located along the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Island coasts and delineated on a set of maps enacted by Congress
• NOAA Quicklook – Displays data from all affected NOAA water level stations (including weather observations) to aid in determining what areas might be impacted by high-water events.
• MyPORTS – Includes current information from affected Gulf PORTS systems: Current 3 day time series and weather observations . Current speeds and directions of PORTS current meters in the affected area .
• Barrier Island Inundation and Overwash: Application to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
• Cooperative Extension System Offices
• South Atlantic Sea Grant Oil Spill Website
• EPA Response to Gulf Oil Spill
• DOE Response to Gulf Oil Spill
• LSU Libraries Oil Spill Information Service