Sunday, June 6, 2010

Link Collection

2010-6-6 14.44


Check out this interactive oil spill projection map with lots of information layers
NOAA
latest news
Mapping the Slick: Oil in Loop Current Threatens Florida Keys and Delicate Coral Reefs. If you think that this can be over in a few months, you are sadly mistaken. This isn't going away (Valdez oil -- from 1989 -- is still in Alaskan waters)
CSM: Alaska beaches still have oil from 1989 spill
Discover: 21 Years After Spill, Exxon Valdez Oil Is *Still* Stuck in Alaska’s Beaches
CBCNews: Exxon Valdez oil still found in Alaskan ducks
THIS IS MUCH MUCH WORSE.
Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Fla.
Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily.
Waterfront Homes Auctioned At Up To 75 Percent Off. Do these people thinking better now than never?
Ocean Motion Wind Driven Surface Currents: Gyres
In Germany same thoughts as mine surface.
Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster
Ixtoc I oil spill @ wikipedia ...also drilled two relief wells into the main well to lower the pressure of the blowout, however the oil continued to flow for three months following the completion of the first relief well.
PBS NewsHour oil spill timeline
MPR News