What follows is my recommended listing of official resources and maps regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. These sites are good resources for tracking the spill and its impacts:
- NOAA's Deepwater Horizon Incident page, which includes a daily situation update and 24/48/72 hour projected maps of the spill.
- The official site of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command, the coordinating center of the 15 agencies coordinating the response.
- The EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico site is a good resource for impacts of the spill on the enivornment.
- The National Weather Service's Deepwater Horizon Decision Support Page includes forecasts for currents and weather.
- The New York Times Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf Map
- Geography at About.com's Geography of the Gulf of Mexico
- Geography at About.com's The Largest Oil Spills in History
- The New York Times Oil Spill Timeline
- This PDF from NOAA is a great two-page summary of the potential impacts of a hurricane on the oil spill.
If you know of other valuable online resources for learning about or tracking the BP oil spill, please post them in the comments and I might add them to the list.
Comments
It is an irony that the spill is generally centered around a country, which is paranoid with imaginery oil spills. The draconian rule of OPA-90 rendered many a shipping companys pauper for no reason. US of A thinks that they being the world policeman can do what ever they wanted. At this juncture what BP should do is throw their hands up , declare pauper ( for the US operations) and sit tight. Lets see what uncle sam will do!
It is sad that the nations of the world are run by and like corporations, one in the same. Thomas Jefferson said centuries ago, “Money, not morality, is the true dictation of nations.” Unfortunately, not much has changed since then. Oil companies have done everything possible to hinder the development of other energy resources, and thus, only protect their own interests. Well. Look where that got us, in the past, present, and most likely, the future. Economics is why we go to war, rely on outdated methods for problem solving and continue politically in circle rather than progressing. Let’s get with the times! Force the oil companies to clean up all their messes, get Haliburton and others to compensate and rebuild war torn countries and areas they are involved in, and, get all corporations to contribute to anything they are directly related to and making a profit from the same (cell phone companies could do a lot more in Darfur, for example, to help the peoples getting raped, maimed and killed, rather than just taking the resource minerals, metals and such to make more of their products, and hence, more profits). Global responsibility should be done in that manner. That way, companies hell bent on making money from something would think twice before not giving back from what has been taken. The world would definitely be, a better place!
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