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NOAA Responds to Shell Drilling Rig Kulluk Grounding in Gulf of Alaska
Waves crash over the mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk where it sits aground on the southeast side of Sitkalidak Island, Alaska, Jan. 1, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard) UPDATED JANUARY 4, 2013 — The mobile...
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Rig Refloated: Update on Efforts to Mobilize Grounded Drill Rig Kulluk in Alaska
A U.S. Coast Guard aerial survey reveals the rugged, remote landscape and the conical drilling unit Kulluk, grounded 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska. Two orange life rafts are visible on the...
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New Legislation Expands Scope of NOAA Marine Debris Program to Deal with...
A team of about a dozen staff and volunteers organized by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife made quick work of removing marine organisms from the dock on the sand at Agate Beach, Ore. The dock...
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When Setting Fire to an Oil Spill in a Flooded Louisiana Swamp is a Good Thing
A view of one of the controlled burns to remove oil spilled in a wooded swamp outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 19, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard) This is a post by Kyle Jellison, NOAA Scientific...
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From Paper to Pixels: Mapping Pollution Response in the Digital Age
Just a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, U.S. Coast Guard Admirals discuss search and rescue strategies in front of a satellite image pieced together by NOAA Geographic Information...
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Broken Louisiana Wellhead No Longer Leaking Oily Mixture
Leaking wellhead in Lake Ecaille, located in the Mississippi River Delta, on February 27, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard) A damaged wellhead leaking an oily mixture in the Mississippi River Delta has been...
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Two Years after Japan Tsunami, Beached Dock to be Removed from Washington’s...
Swept away during the Japan tsunami of March 11, 2011, the steel, concrete, and foam dock beached at Olympic National Park, Wash., nearly two years later. (National Park Service) Two years after the...
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No Oil Spilled, Though Fire Continues after Tug and Barge Hit Gas Pipeline...
A pipeline burns after it was hit by the tug boat Shanon E. Setton, near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans, March 13, 2013. The Coast Guard is working with federal, state and local agencies in...
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For Submerged Oil Pollution in Western Gulf of Mexico, Restoration Is Coming...
By Sandra Arismendez, Regional Resource Coordinator for the Office of Response and Restoration’s Assessment and Restoration Division. Imagine trying to describe the state of 45,000 acres of habitat on...
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From Rubber Ducks to Dog Food, Spilling Everything But Oil
Sometimes when responders can’t spill oil, they spill rubber ducks. (Credit: Jason Ahrns. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.) What do...
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NOAA Hosts Forum Exploring Oil Sands and the Challenges of When They Spill
Water and sediment sampling on Morrow Lake near Battle Creek, Mich., during the response to the Enbridge pipeline spill of oil sands product. August 2, 2010 (U.S. Coast Guard) Unless there is a big...
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Back to the Shore after Hurricane Sandy
GIS specialist Jay Coady, Environmental Sensitivity Index map specialist Jill Petersen, John Tarpley of the OR&R Emergency Response Division, and Jason Rolfe of the NOAA Marine Debris Program also...
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NOAA Report Identifies Shipwrecks with the Potential to Pollute
On May 14, 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps photographed the location of the burning tanker Potrero del Llano. (National Archives) Over the past couple years I’ve talked about the threat of oil spills...
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UPDATED: Natural Gas Release from Wellhead off the Louisiana Coast
Rainbow sheen, such as the one shown here from a different incident in the Gulf of Mexico, has been spotted near the leaking natural gas well off the Louisiana coast. (NOAA) NOAA’s Office of Response...
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NOAA Supporting Coast Guard after Natural Gas Rig Lost Well Control, Caught...
The Hercules 265 drilling rig, located about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, caught fire the night of July 23. Earlier that day, the rig experienced a loss of well control while drilling for...
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How to Survive an Upside-Down Helicopter Crash in the Ocean? Practice
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Nir Barnea, Marine Debris Regional Coordinator and Safety Officer, and LTJG Alice Drury, Scientific Support Coordinator. Oil spill response...
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Arctic-bound: Testing Oil Spill Response Technologies Aboard an Icebreaker
Editor’s Note: September is National Preparedness Month. It is a time to prepare yourself and those in your care for emergencies and disasters of all kinds. The following story shows one way NOAA’s...
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Breaking Ice: A Personal Journey amid Preparations for Arctic Oil Spills
Editor’s Note: September is National Preparedness Month. It is a time to prepare yourself and those in your care for emergencies and disasters of all kinds. The following story follows one way NOAA’s...
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Above, Under, and Through the Ice: Demonstrating Technologies for Oil Spill...
This is the third in a series of posts about Arctic Shield 2013 by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Zach Winters-Staszak. Read his first post, “Arctic-bound” and his second post, “Breaking...
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At the Coast Guard Academy, Students Get a Dose of Real-World Response Tools
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s GIS Specialists Kari Sheets and Jay Coady. The Office of Response and Restoration’s Spatial Data Team introduces U.S. Coast Guard Academy...
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