Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 10.1139/f2011-171: Marine oil spills usually harm organisms at two interfaces: near the water…
Guardian: A key US federal report has focused the blame for the worst…
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill set records for its size and depth. A year on, the biggest impacts seem…
The team working with Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Gulf…
To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil…
Final Report (Released 01/11/2011)
A Multimedia Presentation Summarizing the Commission’s Report
Final Report: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill…
Advance Chapter on BP Well Blowout Investigation Released
Commission releases chapter on BP well blowout investigation in advance of full report.
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As the nation’s experts on oceanic and atmospheric science and the lead science agency for oil spills, NOAA was on-scene…
At the request of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council (NAE/NRC) committee is…
Scientists who were aboard two research vessels studying the Gulf of Mexico oil spill’s impact on sea life have found…
The federal government‟s estimates of the amount of oil flowing into and later remaining in the Gulf of Mexico in…
Most of BP’s spilled oil remains in the Gulf — with little sign of degrading, according to Ian MacDonald of…
Members from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling will hold their third meeting…
The recent devastation to the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent spill of…
Now, in the first independent, peer-reviewed paper on the leak’s volume, scientists have affirmed heightened estimates of what is now…
Below the surface, thousands of marine creatures are still in danger from Gulf oil disaster
Dr. Samantha Joye has returned to the Gulf of Mexico on the Research Vessel Oceanus (see the Gulf Oil Blog).…
A University of Oklahoma technology — GeoChip — played a critical role in an intensive study of the dispersed oil…
In the aftermath of the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil…
The 1.2-mile-wide, 650-foot-high plume of trapped hydrocarbons provides at least a partial answer to recent questions asking where all the…
The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from…
Objective
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has used computer models to estimate the potential threats to…
RestoretheGulf.gov is the official federal portal for the Deepwater BP oil spill response and recovery. This site provides the public…
The report contains analysis of samples taken by the R/V Brooks McCall, a research vessel conducting water sampling from half…
Since the 20 April catastrophe there has been much discussion in US Congressional hearings and the media about the sequence…
Washington – Based on updated information and scientific assessments, Secretary of Energy Steven…
Today, NOAA launches a new federal Web site meant to answer those questions with clarity and transparency — a one-stop…
The iRobot Response Effort
On May 21th, we launched an iRobot Seaglider to monitor the area just a few miles away…
This animation of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill was created using overflight information and forecast models from the…
NOAA’s independent analysis of water samples provided from the May 22-28 research mission of the University of South Florida’s R/V…
A three-dimensional view of the response and the four different areas of operations: in the subsea area near the well;…
At this morning’s White House press briefing, Coast Guard Chief Adm. Thad Allen said the cap on the oil well…
As I’ve said on several occasions, though, the long-term solution to this is going to…
A Wall Street Journal investigation provides the most complete account so far of the fateful decisions that preceded the blast.…
The BBC’s science and environment correspondent, David Shukman, gets a bird’s eye view of the vast oil spill off the…
Following the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) calls…
A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil…
BOULDER—A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might…
Tar balls and sticky oil sheen washed ashore on a northwest Florida beach on Friday, the first apparent impact on…
NOAA has extended the northern and southern boundaries of the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to capture…
May 25, 2010
Fishery Closure Boundary as of May 28, 2010. Closure area may be updated daily as necessary.
NOAA has extended…
ABC News went underwater in the Gulf with Philippe Cousteau Jr., grandson of famous explorer Jacques Cousteau, and he described…
