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Community Forums Answer Oil Spill Questions
WLOX.com aired a story about the Oil Spill Community Forum that the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium hosted yesterday in Biloxi. Sounds like it was a success. “Coast residents learn more about the giant oil spill“, (WLOX.com)
The 2010 Hurricane Season Begins with New Oil Spill Map
Today, of course, marks the start of the 2010 Hurricane Season. The good news: there don’t appear to be any storms yet. The bad news: the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill continues to spread without an end in site. Have a look at this interactive map that shows the extent of the oil each […]
Editorial Advises Better Planning and Building, NOT the Ike Dike
A new Houston Chronicle article argues that building the so-called “Ike Dike” will put more, not less people and property at great risk, and that the best way to protect property from hazards is to keep them out of hazardous areas. In “Forget the Ike Dike, let’s improve building methods” Texas A&M professor John Jacob […]
Free GIS Training on Coastal Inundation: June 29-30, Gautier
Familiar with GIS but not sure how to use it to project coastal inundation in your community? You’re in luck: a whole bunch of organizations have banded together to offer you a free class on how to do it. The details: When: June 29th & 30th 2010 (8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Where: Mississippi Gulf […]
Community Forum on Oil Spill: June 2, Biloxi
This just in from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium: The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and its partners will host a community forum to help provide answers to the public’s questions about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The forum will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, June 2, at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum […]
County Promotes More Precise Storm Surge Maps
A Florida county has released new storm surge maps, and they’re giving locals a more precise idea of their risks of being hit by the storm surge associated with a hurricane. Tampa Bay Online has the whole story. As the article reports, Hillsborough County has based the maps on revised models from the National Hurricane […]
New Diagram of BP's Siphon Tube
BP has released a new image of what’s going on a mile under the sea surface at the Deepwater Horizon site. Regrettably, it doesn’t appear to be working as well as they’d hoped.
Lots of Unknowns as Hurricane Season Closes in on Clean-Up Efforts
Reuters has an interesting article on what the oil spill means for this year’s hurricane season. The short version? Nobody’s sure. On the one hand, nobody likes the idea of the a hurricane pushing the oil that’s currently at sea into the Gulf’s beaches (or further inland). On the other hand, some folks, including some […]
One Infographic to Explain the Whole Oil Spill
Wow. I’m going to be staring at this for a while. Download the full-sized image here. “Crude Awakening” (from Infographic World)