Gulf Oil Spill Information Center

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Gulf Oil Spill Information Center

Tags: bp, british_petroleum, deep_horizons, gosic, gulf_of_mexico, gulf_oil_spill This is a guide to some of the information and data concerning the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the clean-up efforts. A digital library containing many more documents and sources is under development.
Last update: Feb 28th, 2011 URL: http://guides.lib.usf.edu/gulf-oil-spill

 

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Re: Gulf Oil Spill Information Center

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February 7, 2011 20:34
From a University of South Florida News Report:

The USF Libraries? Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) offers a free, one-stop connection to many facets of the story ? with a plan to emphasize hard-to-find technical reports and research papers. An online trip to this site allows anyone interested in learning more to click on tabs linking to USF?s response to the oil spill, BP company information, current issues, K-12 curriculum resources, and maps and images, as well as debates and discrepancies. The impact on wildlife is a forthcoming category.
In each case, multiple resources appear that connect to a growing list of sites and articles with background information in abundance. There is also a link to a comprehensive PBS report on the R/V Weatherbird II and an embedded video of the research vessel?s first trip to the Gulf in May.
Especially striking are maps and models developed by the College of Marine Science that show the status of the Gulf dating back to 2005 and all the changes during and after oil began gushing out of the failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
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USF Libraries has four other similar online resource portals and collections targeting global environmental subjects that researchers from around the world have been using since the first one, the Karst Information Portal, went live in 2005. The other three, (two of which are being worked on now and slated to be launched this fall) under the heading global solutions, deal with caves and cave formations.
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