Oil Spill Recovery

Links and Resources

Official Response and Recovery Sites

• NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration
• Restore the Gulf
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Louisiana Office of Coastal Protection & Restoration

Summaries of the Spill

• Wildlife collection numbers—U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Oil and Birds: Too Close for Comfort—National Audubon Society
• America's Gulf Coast: A long term recovery plan after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—(report to the President; often called the "Mabus Report")
• Deep Water: The Gulf oil disaster and the future of offshore drilling—National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Monitoring Long-Term Ecosystem Effects

• NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration
• Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program—U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Louisiana Coastal Initiative—Audubon
• Louisiana Breeding Bird Atlas—Louisiana State University

Major Efforts to Restore Louisiana’s Wetlands

• 2012 Master Plan Update—progress toward a restoration plan by the Louisiana Office of Coastal Protection & Restoration
• The Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program oversees hundreds of restoration projects in the region of greatest land loss
• Delta Dispatches–a blog from Audubon, Environmental Defense Fund, and National Wildlife Federation
• Restoration and Resilience—a blog from the Environmental Defense Fund
• Vanishing Paradise—sportsman-focused partnership of Ducks Unlimited and National Wildlife Federation Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
• Restore the Earth Foundation— a nonprofit that oversees restoration projects via its Gulf Savers initiative

Maps

• Fishing closures, critical habitats, wildlife data, and more in an interactive web mapping tool (NOAA, University of New Hampshire, EPA)

Oil Spill News Archives

• New York Times  (topic page and article archives)
• Washington Post (topic page and article archives)
• Wall Street Journal (topic page and article archives)

Coverage of the Spill from the Cornell Lab

• Slideshows and field reports on our blog
  • Life as usual—and oil's effects—evident on Louisiana coast
  • In the saltmarsh
  • A rookery in the Iron Banks
  • Helping a less-than-Magnificent Frigatebird
  • Caring for Caspian Tern chicks
  • Wilson's Plovers and why we monitor them
  • A hundred thousand seabirds
  • Oiled mangroves and the birds within
  • Hurricane weather
  • When oil stops, the hard work can begin
• Living Bird magazine
  • Gulf Coast Needs Our Help
  • View from Sapsucker Woods
  • ScienceScope: Harlequin Ducks and Oil Spills
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • One Year Later (print only)
• BirdScope
  • Birds of the Gulf (poster)
  • Finding plovers on a vanishing beach
  • eBirders help focus Gulf conservation efforts