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NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Updated daily
Situation: June 11, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>Collection of oil and gas leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the MC 252 well seems to have leveled off. The amount of oil being collected via the 'top hat' operation was approximately 15,400 gallons yesterday and about the same the day before. The transfer of crude oil from the drillship to the barge Massachusetts, a process known as lightering, began the morning of June 9. The operation should be complete by tomorrow morning and the barge will transport the oil for discharge at an onshore terminal. Late this month, BP intends increase surface processing capacity by re-plumbing the top hat system so it can be routed to tankers. BP is moving forward with plans to connect risers to ports on the side of the blow out preventer. The risers will be connected to the Q4000 rig used in the top kill procedure. The operation is expected to collect 5,000- 10,000 additional barrels of oil per day which will be burned at the Q4000 rig.
BP is also continuing efforts to connect a new free-standing riser to the top hat. The new riser will connect to the containment cap on the well, and will be held in the water by a canister suspended about 300 feet beneath the water's surface. This system should be ready by next month and will allow the surface collection ship to disconnect if a hurricane threatens and reconnect after the storm passes.
Response
There are a total of 24,000 staff currently working to support response efforts in the field. These staff are supporting a wide range of functions including oil cleanup operations, natural resource damage assessment, source control, and seafood safety.
Trajectories
In the near shore areas, onshore (SE/SSE) winds are forecast to continue through Friday at 10 knots or less. Persistent southwesterly winds last week resulted in northward movement of the oil towards the Mississippi/Alabama barrier islands and westward movement along the Florida Panhandle. Models show alongshore currents becoming more westward over the next few days, inhibiting further eastward movement. However, coastal regions in Mississippi Sound west of Pensacola may continue to experience oiling on shorelines. The change to persistent southeasterly winds is also resulting in movement of oil towards Chandeleur and Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta. Offshore, satellite imagery analysis continues to indicate possible patches of sheen to the SE of the main slick. Scattered sheens and tar balls observed in these regions may be getting entrained into the northern edge of the large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has pinched off the main Loop Current (LC). Trajectories indicate that some of these sheens may continue southward along the eastern edge of Eddy Franklin, whereas some may be getting entrained into a counterclockwise eddy to the NE of the main LC eddy. A USCG overflight off the west coast of Florida saw no oil. Satellite imagery from yesterday saw a possible sheen SE of the source. Uncertainty of this anomaly was medium to high. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>
<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA Fisheries Service is not modifying the fishery closure in the Gulf of Mexico today. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 10, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 351 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 10 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Wednesday June 9, and Thursday June 10, 16 dead turtle strandings were verified (15 from Mississippi and one from Louisiana). On Thursday, the turtle search and rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command collected three live heavily-oiled sea turtles and one dead heavily-oiled sea turtle from the Gulf of Mexico. The live turtles were brought for cleaning and rehabilitation to the Audubon Wildlife Center outside New Orleans. They joined 25 other live captured turtles from previous Unified Command on-water rescues already in rehabilitation. A total of 42 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 34 captured turtles from the on-water operation (28 living, three collected dead and three died in rehab), four live stranded sea turtles (two caught in skimming operations) and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 351 turtles verified from April 30 to June 10, a total of 293 stranded turtles were found dead, 24 stranded alive. Three of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles have been released, and 17 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. There are a total of 45 turtles in rehabilitation. Turtle strandings during this time period have been higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 10, 39 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of this, 37 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 39 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>

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  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection id=softomate_v3_highlight_15 title=Appeler ce num?ro de t?l?phone en/au(x) ?tats-Unis d?Am?rique avec Skype : +12813665511 type=".flex" mode=".compat" context="281.366.5511" durex="%DADDYWIDTH%" durex2="%DADDYHEIGHT%" path="file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/" fwidth=".w16" freecall="" isfax="" nof="" skypeaction="call" skypeid="15"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgA id=skype_v3_tb_droppart_15 title="Actions Skype" style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/inactive_a.compat.flex.w16.gif)" skypeaction="drop" skypeid="15" skypesms="0"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgFlag id=skype_v3_tb_img_f15 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/famfamfam/US.gif)"></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgS id=skype_v3_tb_img_s15></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injectionIn id=skype_v3_tb_text15><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_innerText id=skype_v3_tb_innerText15> 281.366.5511 </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgR id=skype_v3_tb_img_r15></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection_print id=softomate_v3_print_15 context="">281.366.5511</SKYPE:SPAN> .<SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection id=softomate_v3_highlight_7 title=Appeler ce num?ro de t?l?phone en/au(x) ?tats-Unis d?Am?rique avec Skype : +12813665511 type=".flex" mode=".compat" context="281.366.5511" durex="%DADDYWIDTH%" durex2="%DADDYHEIGHT%" path="file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/" fwidth=".w16" freecall="" isfax="" nof="" skypeaction="call" skypeid="7"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgA id=skype_v3_tb_droppart_7 title="Actions Skype" style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/inactive_a.compat.flex.w16.gif)" skypeaction="drop" skypeid="7" skypesms="0"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgFlag id=skype_v3_tb_img_f7 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/famfamfam/US.gif)"></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgS id=skype_v3_tb_img_s7></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injectionIn id=skype_v3_tb_text7><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_innerText id=skype_v3_tb_innerText7> 281.366.5511 </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgR id=skype_v3_tb_img_r7></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection_print id=softomate_v3_print_7 context="">281.366.5511</SKYPE:SPAN> .
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Updated daily
Situation: June 12, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>BP continues to capture some oil and burn some gas at the surface using its containment dome technique, which is being executed under the federal government?s direction. After cutting off a portion of the riser, BP placed a containment device over it in order to capture oil at its source.
Response
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore and offshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories.
More than 25,500 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline and wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines.
One of several public expos was held last night in Houma, attended by over 150 people. Health effects of dispersants, seafood impacts, and potential hurricane impacts were among the topics of concern. The next public expos in are scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Trajectories Onshore (SE/S/SW) winds are forecast to continue into next week at speeds less than10 knots. Persistent onshore winds have resulted in northward movement of the slick towards the Mississippi/Alabama barrier islands and the Florida Panhandle. Coastal regions in Mississippi Sound west of Freeport may continue to experience shoreline contacts throughout this forecast period. Persistent southeasterly winds are also resulting in movement of oil towards the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound, and the Mississippi Delta. These regions are also threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA Fisheries Service is not modifying the fishery closure in the Gulf of Mexico today. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 374 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 11 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Thursday, June 10, and Friday, June 11, 23 turtle strandings were verified (17 dead and two live strandings from Mississippi, one dead and two live strandings from Florida, and one dead stranding from Alabama). One of the live stranded turtles subsequently died and the three others were placed in rehabilitation. There are now 48 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 28 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the turtle search and rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command. These 28 sea turtles were scooped from the Gulf of Mexico and brought to the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans for rehabilitation. A total of 42 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 34 captured turtles from the on-water operation (28 living, three collected dead and three died in rehab), four live stranded sea turtles (two caught in skimming operations) and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 374 turtles verified from April 30 to June 11, a total of 312 stranded turtles were found dead, 28 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles have been released, and 20 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 11, 39 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of this, 37 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 39 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
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  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection id=softomate_v3_highlight_23 title=Appeler ce num?ro de t?l?phone en/au(x) ?tats-Unis d?Am?rique avec Skype : +12813665511 type=".flex" context="281.366.5511" durex="%DADDYWIDTH%" durex2="%DADDYHEIGHT%" path="file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/" fwidth=".w16" freecall="" isfax="" nof="" skypeaction="call" skypeid="23" mode=".compat"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgA id=skype_v3_tb_droppart_23 title="Actions Skype" style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/inactive_a.compat.flex.w16.gif)" skypeaction="drop" skypeid="23" skypesms="0"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgFlag id=skype_v3_tb_img_f23 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/famfamfam/US.gif)"></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgS id=skype_v3_tb_img_s23></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injectionIn id=skype_v3_tb_text23><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_innerText id=skype_v3_tb_innerText23> 281.366.5511 </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgR id=skype_v3_tb_img_r23></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection_print id=softomate_v3_print_23 context="">281.366.5511</SKYPE:SPAN> .<SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection id=softomate_v3_highlight_15 title=Appeler ce num?ro de t?l?phone en/au(x) ?tats-Unis d?Am?rique avec Skype : +12813665511 type=".flex" context="281.366.5511" durex="%DADDYWIDTH%" durex2="%DADDYHEIGHT%" path="file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/" fwidth=".w16" freecall="" isfax="" nof="" skypeaction="call" skypeid="15" mode=".compat"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgA id=skype_v3_tb_droppart_15 title="Actions Skype" style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/inactive_a.compat.flex.w16.gif)" skypeaction="drop" skypeid="15" skypesms="0"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgFlag id=skype_v3_tb_img_f15 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/famfamfam/US.gif)"></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgS id=skype_v3_tb_img_s15></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injectionIn id=skype_v3_tb_text15><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_innerText id=skype_v3_tb_innerText15> 281.366.5511 </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgR id=skype_v3_tb_img_r15></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection_print id=softomate_v3_print_15 context="">281.366.5511</SKYPE:SPAN> t?l?phone.<SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection id=softomate_v3_highlight_7 title=Appeler ce num?ro de t?l?phone en/au(x) ?tats-Unis d?Am?rique avec Skype : +12813665511 type=".flex" context="281.366.5511" durex="%DADDYWIDTH%" durex2="%DADDYHEIGHT%" path="file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/" fwidth=".w16" freecall="" isfax="" nof="" skypeaction="call" skypeid="7" mode=".compat"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgA id=skype_v3_tb_droppart_7 title="Actions Skype" style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/inactive_a.compat.flex.w16.gif)" skypeaction="drop" skypeid="7" skypesms="0"><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgFlag id=skype_v3_tb_img_f7 style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:/Users/DMorin/AppData/Local/Temp/Low/__SkypeIEToolbar_Cache/e70d95847a8f5723cfca6b3fd9946506/static/famfamfam/US.gif)"></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgS id=skype_v3_tb_img_s7></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injectionIn id=skype_v3_tb_text7><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_innerText id=skype_v3_tb_innerText7> 281.366.5511 </SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN><SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_imgR id=skype_v3_tb_img_r7></SKYPE:SPAN></SKYPE:SPAN> <SKYPE:SPAN class=skype_v3_tb_injection_print id=softomate_v3_print_7 context="">281.366.5511</SKYPE:SPAN> .
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
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Situation: June 13, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

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OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore and offshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories.
To facilitate the removal of heavy oil that has begun to come ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, Gulf State Park, Alabama, and Bon Secour, Alabama, the Unified Command has increased skimming and beach cleanup activities and is preparing to move to 24-hour cleanup and skimming operations. More than 400 skimmers are currently deployed to remove an oil-water mix from the Gulf?a more than 300 percent increase over recent days. Area coastlines are being protected by both near-shore and offshore operations. Near-shore skimming vessels were moved from Panama City to Pensacola, Florida. Skimming operations directed by ICP Mobile have collected more than 240,500 gallons of oil-water mix from the Gulf as far out as 50 miles. New skimming equipment, including ?Current Buster? skimming systems and a ?Big Gulp? weir skimmer, is being deployed offshore. Current Busters can be towed at higher speeds than conventional boom and are ideally suited to high seas and ocean currents. The Big Gulp is a barge that has been converted into a large-capacity skimmer. A task force, or group of vessels including skimmers, is working south of Gulf Shores, Alabama, Perdido Pass, Florida, and Petit Bois Island, Mississippi, among other areas, to boom and skim oil. Night skimming operations will be pursued as weather permits.
Trajectories Winds this weekend are forecast to be variable and less than 10 knots. By Monday night, onshore (predominantly SSE/SE winds) are expected to resume with speeds of 6-10 knots. Persistent onshore winds have resulted in northward movement of the slick towards the Mississippi/Alabama barrier islands and the Florida Panhandle. Coastal regions in Mississippi Sound west of Freeport may continue to experience shoreline contacts throughout this forecast period. Persistent southeasterly winds are also resulting in movement of oil towards the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound, and the Mississippi Delta. These region are also threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 387 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 12 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Friday, June 11, and Saturday, June 12, 10 turtle strandings were verified (one live oiled from Florida, one dead from Florida and 8 dead from Mississippi). The on-water turtle rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command captured three heavily-oiled turtles Saturday and brought them ashore for rehabilitation at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans. There are now 52 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 31 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 21 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 46 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 37 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (31 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), five live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 387 turtles verified from April 30 to June 12, a total of 321 stranded turtles were found dead, 29 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 21 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 12, 41 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Two dead stranded dolphins, one from Louisiana and one from Mississippi, were verified on Saturday, June 12. Of this 41, 39 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 41 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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Situation: June 14, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>Response
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore and offshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories.
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse
The public site was launched today. See the article and link at the top of this page. The site employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform developed by NOAA and the University of New Hampshire?s Coastal Response Research Center. ERMA was designed to facilitate communication and coordination among a variety of users ? from federal, state and local responders to local community leaders and the public. The site was designed to be fast and user-friendly, and it will be constantly updated.
Trajectories Winds are forecast to be primarily onshore (predominantly S/SE winds) but at less than 10 knots through the forecast. Persistent onshore winds have resulted in northward movement of the slick towards the Mississippi/Alabama barrier islands and the Florida Panhandle. Coastal regions in Mississippi Sound west of Freeport may continue to experience shoreline contacts throughout this forecast period. Persistent south-southeasterly winds are also resulting in movement of oil towards the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound, and the Mississippi Delta. These regions are also threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA Fisheries Service is not modifying the fishery closure in the Gulf of Mexico today. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 13, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 411 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 13 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Saturday, June 12, and Sunday, June 13, 13 turtle strandings were verified (five dead and three live from Mississippi, 1 dead from Florida, two dead from Alabama and one live and one dead from Louisiana). The on-water turtle rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command captured 11 heavily-oiled turtles Sunday and brought them ashore for rehabilitation at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans. There are now 67 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 42 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 25 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 57 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 48 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (42 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), five live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.


Of the 411 turtles verified from April 30 to June 13, a total of 330 stranded turtles were found dead, 33 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 25 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 13, 41 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of this 41, 39 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 41 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.


A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>



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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511 </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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Situation: June 15, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>The collection of oil from the containment cap on the leaking MC 252 well pipe in the Gulf of Mexico was interrupted today when lightning struck the Discovery Enterprise, the drillship where the oil is processed and stored. Following the strike a fire occurred in a vent pipe leading from a storage tank. There was no significant damage to the containment system and collection resumed within 5 hours of the strike.
Response
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore and offshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories.
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse
The public site, which includes over 400 layers of incident related information, was launched yesterday. In the past 24 hours the site has received over 3.4 million hits. GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform developed by NOAA and the University of New Hampshire?s Coastal Response Research Center. ERMA was designed to facilitate communication and coordination among a variety of users ? from federal, state and local responders to local community leaders and the public. The site was designed to be fast and user-friendly, and it will be constantly updated. See article at the top of this page for more details.
Trajectories Recent satellite imagery analysis no longer shows the persistent patches of sheen to the S-SE of the main slick. However, scattered sheens and tar balls previously observed in these regions may be getting entrained into the large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has pinched off the main Loop Current (LC). Trajectories indicate that most of these sheens will continue to move clockwise in Eddy Franklin. Some oil may be getting entrained into a counterclockwise eddy to the NE of Eddy Franklin. A NESDIS satellite analysis on Saturday night did not report any oil on the West Florida shelf or in the Florida Strait. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>
<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA Fisheries Service is not modifying the fishery closure in the Gulf of Mexico today. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 14, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 430 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 14 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Sunday, June 13, and Monday, June 14, 8 turtle strandings were verified (2 dead from Mississippi, 2 dead from Florida, four dead from Louisiana). The on-water turtle rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command captured 11 heavily-oiled turtles Monday and brought them ashore for rehabilitation at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans. There are now 78 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 53 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 25 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 68 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 59 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (53 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), five live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 430 turtles verified from April 30 to June 14, a total of 338 stranded turtles were found dead, 33 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 25 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 14, 43 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area, an increase of 2 (both documented in Mississippi) verified since June 13. Of this 43, 41 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 43 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Response on Facebook This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Updated daily
Situation: June 16, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>Response
BP succeeded today in collecting oil and gas through a second containment system attached to the Deepwater Horizon failed blow out preventer (BOP). The new system is connected directly to ports on the BOP and carries oil and gas to the Q4000 vessel at the surface where it is flared using a clean-burning system. The Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) containment system continues to collect around 15, 000 bbls/day. BP previously estimated that the new containment system may collect between 5-10,000 additional bbls/day and expects to have a more accurate collection rate soon. Information on the volume of oil collected from both containment systems will be posted twice daily on the BP Web site.
Clean-up operations at the surface and on shore are ongoing. There have been over 200 in-situ burns of nearly 5.20 million gallons of oil. Over 5,000 response vessels and 95 aircraft are deployed, and over 400 skimmers have collected more than 21.1 million gallons of oily water. Dispersants continue to be released and boom staged. Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Teams (SCAT) are supporting cleanup of shorelines in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.
Trajectories
Winds are forecast to be relatively weak (5-8 knots) and predominantly SW/W through Thursday, then become NW at 6-9 knots on Friday. Trajectories indicate continued movement of the slick to the NE over the next few days. Eastward alongshore currents will continue to move the oil east along the Florida coast. Coastal regions between Dauphin Island, AL and Panama City, Florida are threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. A morning overflight reported scattered sheens and tarballs south of the Chandeleur Islands; this region is also threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA modified the commercial and recreational fishing closure in the oil-affected portions of the Gulf of Mexico today. See the Southeast Fishery Bulletin, June 16, 2010 for map and information. The closure measures 80,806 sq mi (209,286 sq km), or about 33% of the Gulf of Mexico exclusive economic zone. The majority of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are open to commercial and recreational fishing. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber will be analyzed. Sperm whales are listed as an endangered species.
A total of 449 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 15 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Monday, June 14, and Tuesday, June 15, 12 turtle strandings were verified. The on-water turtle rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command captured 7 heavily-oiled turtles Tuesday and brought them ashore for rehabilitation at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans. There are now 85 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 60 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 25 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 75 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 66 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (60 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), five live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 449 turtles verified from April 30 to June 15, a total of 350 stranded turtles were found dead, 33 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 25 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 15, 45 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area, an increase of 2 (both documented in Mississippi) verified since June 14. Of this 45, 43 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized. So far, two of the 45 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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Situation: June 17, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>HOUMA, La. ? The vacuum barges in Louisiana have been deemed safe to re-join the fight against the oil spill in the Gulf. The vacuum barges were temporarily removed from service after safety concerns occurred including stability and the lack of lifesaving and firefighting equipment. The Coast Guard Incident Commander in Houma, responsible for the safety of more than 10,000 response workers in Louisiana, and the Coast Guard Captain of the Port of New Orleans, responsible for general vessel safety and inspections in Louisiana, consulted on the safety issues of the shallow water barge vacuum vessels. They are satisfied that all concerns have been addressed and the vessels are safe for all crewmembers aboard. ?The Coast Guard supports the Louisiana vacuum barge project - fighting the oil is our priority. However, we will never compromise the safety of all the men and women working so hard out in the field,? said Capt. Roger Laferriere, Coast Guard Incident Commander in Houma.

Response
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore and offshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories
Recent satellite imagery analysis no longer shows the persistent patches of sheen to the S-SE of the main slick. However, scattered sheens and tar balls previously observed in these regions may have been entrained into the large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has pinched off the main Loop Current (LC). Trajectories indicate that most of these sheens will continue to move clockwise in Eddy Franklin. Some oil may be getting entrained into a counterclockwise eddy to the NE of Eddy Franklin. The connection between the spill source and Eddy Franklin has been cut off due to a change in the currents. The oil will biodegrade and photo-oxidize over the time frame of weeks to months. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 16, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site earlier this week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.

A total of 461 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 16 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Tuesday, June 15, and Wednesday, June 16, 6 turtle strandings were verified, one live turtle in Florida and five dead from Mississippi. The on-water turtle rescue operation led by NOAA, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and other partners working under the Wildlife Branch of the Unified Command captured 6 heavily-oiled turtles Wednesday and brought them ashore for rehabilitation at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans. There are now 91 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 66 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 26 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 82 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 72 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (66 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 461 turtles verified from April 30 to June 16, a total of 355 stranded turtles were found dead, 34 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 26 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
From April 30 to June 16, 45 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area, no change from Tuesday, June 15. Of this 45, 43 dolphins stranded dead and two stranded alive. One of those dolphins died on the beach and the other that stranded alive in Florida was euthanized.

So far, two of the 45 stranded dolphins had evidence of external oil. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Updated daily

Situation: June 18, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>The offshore trajectory maps will be suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.

Response

Over 25,000 barrels of oil were recovered yesterday. The Enterprise is now producing above what was originally anticipated.
More than 40 Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Teams (SCAT)?federal, state and BP officials are working to assess and determine how cleanup will be conducted, and oversee cleanup operations?continue to monitor and cleanup shorelines along the Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida coastlines.

Light variable winds over the next few days should slow oil movement to the east
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Recent satellite imagery analysis no longer shows the persistent patches of sheen to the S-SE of the main slick. However, non-recoverable sheens and tar balls previously observed in these regions may have been entrained into the large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has pinched off the main Loop Current (LC). Trajectories indicate that most of these sheens will continue to move clockwise in Eddy Franklin. The connection between the spill source and Eddy
Franklin has been cut off due to a change in the currents. The oil will biodegrade and photo-oxidize over the time frame of weeks to months. No recoverable oil is expected to enter the Florida current over the next 72 hours. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site earlier this week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.
A total of 469 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 17 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Wednesday, June 16, and Thursday, June 17, 8 turtle strandings were verified (One dead oiled turtle in Alabama, one dead in Louisiana, three live and three dead in Mississippi). There are now 95 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 66 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 29 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 83 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 72 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (66 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), seven live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and four dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 469 turtles verified from April 30 to June 17, a total of 360 stranded turtles were found dead, 37 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 29 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

From April 30 to June 17, 46 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. On Thursday, responders located a dolphin off of Florida, classified as stranded because it was trapped by boom. The responders moved the outer boom so the dolphin could swim out on its own. There was no visible oil on the dolphin or in the area. The dolphin was classified as oiled because there was oil on the outside of the two booms. Of the total 46 stranded dolphins, 43 dolphins stranded dead, three stranded alive. Two of the live strandings died. Visible evidence of external oil was found on two dolphins. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment
 NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231
  • or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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Situation: June 19, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>The offshore trajectory maps will be suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
Response
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. Overflights are also conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.
Trajectories Winds are forecast to continue to be relatively light (<10 kts) and variable this weekend, then become more persistently onshore (SE) Sunday night through Tuesday. Trajectories indicate continued slow movement of the slick to the east. Coastal regions between Dauphin Island, AL and Panama City, FL continue to be threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. More persistent SE winds later in the forecast period will begin to increase the threat of shoreline contacts to the Chandeleur Islands and the Mississippi Delta.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 480 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 18 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Fla. Between Thursday, June 17, and Friday, June 18, 11 turtle strandings were verified (One dead turtle in Alabama, one live oiled turtle and three dead turtles in Louisiana, four dead in Mississippi, two dead from Florida). There are now 96 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 67 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of the on-water rescue operation and 29 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 84 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 73 captured or collected turtles from the on-water operation (67 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in skimming operations), and five dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.
Of the 480 turtles verified from April 30 to June 18, a total of 370 stranded turtles were found dead, 37 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 29 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings, during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site earlier last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.
From April 30 to June 18, 47 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Another dead stranded dolphin was verified on Friday from a May 29 stranding in Louisiana. On Thursday, responders freed a dolphin off Florida that was caught between booms; it was classified as stranded. There was no visible oil on the dolphin or in the area. The dolphin was classified as oiled because there was oil on the outside of the two booms. Of the total 47 stranded dolphins, 44 dolphins stranded dead, the dolphin freed from booms and two others stranded alive. Two of the live strandings died. Visible evidence of external oil was found on the two that stranded alive and subsequently died. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the animals were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More

GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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Situation: June 21, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>The NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson returned to Galveston, Texas, on June 11 from an eight-day research mission to investigate the presence and distribution of subsurface oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill. The mission collected water samples for chemical analysis and tested the feasibility of using acoustic and flourometric scanning to help find potential pockets of subsurface oil clouds. The science team onboard included researchers from NOAA, EPA, the University of New Hampshire and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. NOAA continues to conduct a variety of research missions to study the impacts of the BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico?part of the federal government?s ongoing effort to engage the best scientific minds to inform response and recovery efforts. For further details about the research mission, read the full article, Initial Observations from the NOAA Ship </SPAN>Thomas Jefferson.

Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to continue to be 10 knots or less and primarily from the E to SE, through Wednesday. Trajectories indicate continued slow movement of the slick to the east. Coastal regions between Dauphin Island, Alabama and Panama City, Florida continue to be threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. More persistent SE winds later in the forecast period will increase the threat of shoreline impacts to the Chandeleur Islands and the Mississippi Delta during the latter half of the coming week.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Today, NOAA modified the commercial and recreational fishing closure in the oil-affected portions of the Gulf of Mexico. This closure (see map) is effective on June 21, 2010 at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 p.m. central time). All commercial and recreational fishing including catch and release is prohibited in the closed area; however, transit through the area is allowed. The closure measures 86,985 sq mi (225,290 sq km) and covers about 36% of the Gulf of Mexico exclusive economic zone. The majority of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are open to commercial and recreational fishing. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 20, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 504 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 20 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Fla. Between Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20, 9 turtle strandings were verified (Three live turtles and four dead turtles were discovered in Mississippi, two dead were found in Alabama). In addition, a dead turtle was collected by an offshore bird and turtle survey team. There are now 106 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 73 heavily-oiled sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations and 33 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 90 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 79 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (73 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and five dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 504 turtles verified from April 30 to June 20, a total of 383 stranded turtles were found dead, 41 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 33 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site earlier last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.

From April 30 to June 20, 50 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of the total 50 stranded dolphins, 46 dolphins stranded dead, four dolphins stranded alive and two of those have subsequently died, one on the beach and the other euthanized. The other two include one in rehabilitation at Audubon Aquarium found Saturday and the one freed from oil booms. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on three dolphins. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether the two of the dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More

GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Under the direction of the federal government, BP continues to capture some oil and burn gas at the surface using its containment dome technique. In addition to the oil collection aboard the Discoverer Enterprise, which is linked by the riser pipe to the wellhead, and the Q4000, which continues to flare off additional oil and gas being brought up through the choke lines?a method that was also put in place at the government?s direction. In the last 24 hours 25,836 barrels of petroleum was recovered, a new daily record. In recent days, favorable weather conditions have allowed responders to conduct successful controlled burn operations. As part of a coordinated response that combines tactics deployed above water, below water, offshore, and close to coastal areas, controlled burns efficiently remove oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife. In total, 275 burns have been conducted to remove more than 9.32 million gallons of oil from the water.

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to be predominantly onshore (SE) through Wednesday at speeds of 5-12 knots, then become ENE on Thursday. Trajectories indicate developing westward currents within the Mississippi Bight region will begin to inhibit further movement of the slick to the east. Coastal regions between Horn Island, Mississippi and Panama City, Florida are threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. Under persistent SE winds, the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are also threatened.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Today, NOAA made no changes to the current fishery closure. This current closure (see map) became effective on June 21. All commercial and recreational fishing including catch and release is prohibited in the closed area; however, transit through the area is allowed. The closure measures 86,985 sq mi (225,290 sq km) and covers about 36% of the Gulf of Mexico exclusive economic zone. The majority of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are open to commercial and recreational fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 21, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 527 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 21 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Sunday, June 20, and Monday, June 21, 13 turtle strandings were verified (Ten dead in Mississippi, 2 dead in Alabama, and one dead in Louisiana). Ten live turtles were collected during offshore bird and turtle surveys by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Two of those were visibly oiled. There are now 116 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 83 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 33 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 92 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 81 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (75 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and five dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 527 turtles verified from April 30 to June 21, a total of 396 stranded turtles were found dead, 41 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 33 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the
Upper Gulf of Mexico.

From April 30 to June 21, 50 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area - no change from June 20. Of the total 50 stranded dolphins, 46 dolphins stranded dead, four dolphins stranded alive and two of those have subsequently died, one on the beach and the other euthanized. The other two include one in rehabilitation at Audubon Aquarium found Saturday and one freed from between two oil booms. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on three dolphins. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether two of the dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More

GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Situation: June 23, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>While the capture of oil and gas through the blowout preventer?s choke line to the Q4000 vessel on the surface continues, the use of the lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap was temporarily suspended today when a discharge of liquids was observed from a diverter valve on the drill ship Discoverer Enterprise. As a precautionary measure, the LMRP containment cap system, which is attached to the Discover Enterprise, was removed to ensure the safety of operations and allow the unexpected release of liquids to be analyzed.

Due to severe weather conditions expected across southeast Louisiana today, June 23, regularly scheduled cleanup and response efforts may be impacted/halted as weather systems move through the area. These efforts include controlled burns, dispersant flights, and booming operations. Source efforts and some skimming vessels may be operating as long as conditions do not exceed their operating limits. Protective boom is in place along many miles of Louisiana?s coastline. Crews will resume cleanups as soon as safely possible. Safety of all personnel is important to the success of this operation. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected today as well as frequent lightening and wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour.

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Moderate SE winds (7-12 knots) are forecast to continue through Wednesday then become E on Thursday/Friday. Trajectories indicate developing westward currents within the Mississippi Bight region will begin to inhibit further movement of the slick to the east. Coastal regions between Ship Island, Mississippi and Panama City, Florida are threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. Under persistent SE and E winds, the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are increasingly threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period.
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA has opened more than 8,000 square miles of previously closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico, because the agency has not observed oil in the area (see map). The most significant opening is an area due south of Mississippi which was closed Monday, June 21. Additionally, some smaller areas were opened off the Louisiana and central Florida coasts. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>These areas were initially closed as a precaution because oil was projected to be within those areas over the next few days. However, the review of satellite imagery, radar and aerial data indicated that oil had not moved into these areas.

The federal closed area does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in this area is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers.

The closed area now represents 78,597 square miles, which is approximately 32.5 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than two-thirds of Gulf federal waters available for fishing. The last closed area modification was June 21, when 86,985 square miles were closed to fishing, or roughly 36 percent of federal waters of the Gulf.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 535 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 22 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Monday, June 21, and Tuesday, June 22, 8 turtle strandings were verified (One live turtle from Florida and four dead from Florida, three dead turtles from Mississippi). There are now 117 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 83 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 34 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 92 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 81 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (75 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and five dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 535 turtles verified from April 30 to June 22, a total of 403 stranded turtles were found dead, 42 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 34 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.

From April 30 to June 22, 50 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area - no change from June 21. Of the total 50 stranded dolphins, 46 dolphins stranded dead, four dolphins stranded alive and two of those have subsequently died, one on the beach and the other euthanized. The other two include one in rehabilitation at Audubon Aquarium and one freed from between two oil booms. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on three dolphins. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether two of the dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. The third dolphin was the one freed from between booms. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment

NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program is conducting a Natural Resource Damage Assessment. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This website also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Response on Facebook This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Response on Twitter This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Updated daily
Situation: June 24, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>Administration Releases its First Scientific Report on Subsea Monitoring Data Yesterday, NOAA, EPA and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released the first peer reviewed, analytical summary report about the subsea monitoring in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead?which contains analysis of samples taken by the R/V Brooks McCall, a research vessel conducting water sampling from half a mile to nine miles of the wellhead?part of continued efforts to engage the brightest scientific minds to confront the worst environmental disaster the country has ever faced.

The report comes from the Joint Analysis Group (JAG), which was established to facilitate cooperation and coordination among the best scientific minds across the government and provide a coordinated analysis of information related to subsea monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico. This comprehensive analysis helps define the characteristics of the water and presence of oil below the surface in the area close to the wellhead from May 8-25.

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S.

Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed four NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Moderate SE winds (8-12 knots) are forecast to become E overnight and continue to have an easterly component (E/ESE/ENE) through Saturday. Trajectories indicate westward currents within the Mississippi Bight region will inhibit further movement of the slick to the east. Coastal regions between Ship Island, MS and Freeport, FL are threatened by shoreline contacts within this forecast period. Under persistent easterly winds, the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are increasingly threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>The June 23 closure remains in effect (see map). The federal closed area does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in this area is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area now represents 78,597 square miles, which is approximately 32.5 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than two-thirds of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 23, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 539 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 23 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Tuesday, June 22, and Wednesday, June 23, 4 turtle strandings were verified (One dead in Alabama and three dead in Mississippi). There are now 117 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>These include 83 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 34 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 92 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 81 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (75 live turtles, 3 collected dead and 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and five dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 539 turtles verified from April 30 to June 23, a total of 407 stranded turtles were found dead, 42 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 34 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico.

From April 30 to June 23, 51 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. One live oiled spinner dolphin calf was found off Florida on June 23. It died on the scene. Of the total 51 stranded dolphins, 46 dolphins stranded dead, five dolphins stranded alive and three of those have subsequently died. The other two include one in rehabilitation at Audubon Aquarium and one freed from between two oil booms. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins. However, we are unable at this time to determine whether two of the dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies. Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Response on Facebook This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Response on Twitter This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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  • GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse Near-real time information about the response effort and a source of alternate and additional maps. [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Fifth NOAA Ship Adds to Ongoing Research Efforts in the Gulf Coast
NOAA Ship Delaware II departed Key West, Florida, to collect tunas, swordfish and sharks and compile data about the conditions these highly migratory species are experiencing in the Gulf of Mexico. During its two-week mission, the research vessel will use longline fishing gear to capture the fish, and assess their environment using sophisticated water chemistry monitoring instruments.

Two other NOAA ships?Pisces, one of NOAA?s newest research vessels, and the ship Oregon II?are in the midst of surveys of reef fish, bottom-dwelling fish, and shrimp in the eastern and western Gulf of Mexico to sample for seafood and water quality and species abundance as part of the oil spill response. For a complete list of vessels involved in NOAA?s ongoing efforts to engage the best scientific minds to monitor water quality and ensure the health and safety of seafood, click here

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed four NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to be predominantly easterly (E/ESE) through Sunday at speeds of 7-15 kts. The northern edge of the slick continues to move northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle east to Freeport. Under these persistent easterly winds, the Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are also increasingly threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period. Models suggest westward currents developing south of the Delta may begin moving oil west towards Terrebonne Bay.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 549 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 24 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Wednesday, June 23, and Thursday, June 24, 7 turtle strandings were verified (One live in Florida, one dead oiled in Alabama and another dead in Alabama, three dead from Mississippi and one dead from Louisiana). Three live, oiled turtles were captured as part of the on-water search and rescue operation by the Unified Command. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>There are now 121 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 86 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 35 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 96 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 84 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (78 live turtles, 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation and 3 collected dead ), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and six dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 549 turtles verified from April 30 to June 24, a total of 413 stranded turtles were found dead, 43 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 35 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to June 24, 52 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. One decomposed dolphin was reported from Louisiana. Of the 52 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in rehabilitation.

Forty-seven dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies.

Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Oil-spill Response Plan to protect sea turtle nests and hatchlings released
Unified Command Wildlife Branch scientists and partner organizations are implementing an extraordinary plan to protect sea turtle nests and eggs from potential impacts of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The plan, entitled Sea Turtle Late-Term Nest Collection and Hatchling Release Plan, was developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA-Fisheries), and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC), and involves translocation of an anticipated 700 nests in an effort to prevent the loss of the entire cohort of hatchlings. The plan takes a proactive approach to minimize oil-spill impacts by ensuring nests are marked to prevent damage from beach clean-up operations, and by coordinating the collection of nests at a point in the incubation cycle where transport is less likely to result in the loss of viable eggs.

?Permitted nest surveyors have been in the field locating and marking nests daily since the start of the nesting season,? said Sandy MacPherson, FWS national sea turtle coordinator. ?Data on the nest location and the date deposited are being closely tracked. This allows us certainty in timing the nest collection phase of the plan.? Once collected, the nests are individually packed in specially prepared Styrofoam boxes and transported by specially equipped ground transportation to a secure, climate-controlled location on the east central coast of Florida where they will remain until incubation is complete.

MacPherson noted that most nests are laid by loggerheads; however, a few nests are also possible from three other sea turtle species ? Kemp?s ridley, leatherback, and green turtle. ?As hatchlings emerge they will be released on east central Florida beaches where they will be allowed to make their way to the ocean,? said Barbara Schroeder, NOAA Fisheries national sea turtle coordinator. ?In developing this plan we realized early on that our expectations for success needed to be realistic,? MacPherson said. ?On the one hand the activities identified in the protocols are extraordinary and would never be supportable under normal conditions.

However, taking no action would likely result in the loss of all of this year?s Northern Gulf of Mexico hatchlings. This plan applies to nests deposited on Florida Panhandle and Alabama beaches during the 2010 nesting season only as it is this year?s cohort in the Northern Gulf area which is at the highest risk for encountering oil after entering the ocean. Officials do not intend to implement these protocols elsewhere or in future years in this area.

According to Robbin Trindell with the FWCC?s Imperiled Species Management Branch, oil-spill impacts to nests laid along the Southwest Florida beaches are not likely to result in the loss of the entire 2010 hatchling cohort. ?The loggerhead turtles produced on Southwest Florida beaches are part of a larger subpopulation that also nests on Florida?s Atlantic Coast beaches,? Trindell explained. ?Thus, the likelihood that all or a significant portion of this 2010 cohort would be lost is highly improbable.? Officials note that scientists continue to monitor the oil-spill situation and are prepared to consider additional options if and when needed.

The complete plan, along with other wildlife related plans and recommended protocols, is available on-line at the FWS North Florida Ecological Services Office website.

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S.
Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed four NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to be predominantly easterly (E/ESE) through Monday at speeds of 8-14 knots. The northern edge of the slick continues to move northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle east to Freeport, Florida. The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are also threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period. An overflight today observed dark brown oil south of the Delta (within ~7 miles of Southwest pass) -- westward currents are moving oil from this region west towards Terrebonne Bay.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>The June 23 closure remains in effect (see map). The federal closed area does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in this area is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area now represents 78,597 square miles, which is approximately 32.5 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than two-thirds of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 555 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 25 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Thursday, June 24, and Friday, June 25, 5 turtle strandings were verified (One live in Mississippi, two dead in Mississippi, one dead in Alabama and one dead from Louisiana). In addition, one live, oiled turtle was captured as part of the on-water search and rescue operation by the Unified Command. There are now 123 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 87 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 36 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 97 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on 
April 30. These include the 85 captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (79 live turtles, 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation and 3 collected dead), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and six dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 555 turtles verified from April 30 to June 25, a total of 417 stranded turtles were found dead, 44 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 36 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased 
detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have 
been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

 From April 30 to June 25, 54 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Two dead dolphin strandings in Louisiana were verified on June 25. Of the 54 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is 
in rehabilitation.

Forty-nine dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before 
or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies. Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Situation: June 27, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>BP Continues to Optimize Oil Recovery Rates from its Leaking Well
Under the direction of the federal government, BP continues to capture some oil and burn gas at the surface using its containment dome technique?collecting oil aboard the Discoverer Enterprise, which is linked by a fixed riser pipe to the wellhead, and flaring off additional oil and gas on the Q4000, which is connected to the choke line. BP has finished installing the first free standing riser, which has greater survivability than a fixed riser and will be connected to a third vessel arriving at the site of the wellbore next week, the Helix Producer?a redundancy measure also taken under the direction of the federal government.

Progress Continues in Drilling Relief Wells; Ranging Process Continues
The Development Driller III continues to drill the first relief well to a depth of approximately 16,400 feet (11,100 feet below the sea floor). The Development Driller II has drilled the second relief well?a redundancy measure taken at the direction of the administration?to a depth of more than 12,000 feet below the Gulf surface.

BP continues the ?ranging? process?which involves periodically withdrawing the drill pipe and sending an electrical signal down to determine how close they are getting to the wellbore.

NOAA Response

NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed four NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to be predominantly easterly (SE/ESE) through Tuesday at speeds of 5-15 knots. This will result in the northern edge of the slick moving northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle east to Freeport, Florida.

The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are also threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period. West of the Delta, the shoreline between Barataria Bay and Terrebone Bay are threatened as Saturday?s overflight reported brown bands of oil south and west of Southwest Pass.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>The June 23 closure remains in effect (see map). The federal closed area does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in this area is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area now represents 78,597 square miles, which is approximately 32.5 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than two-thirds of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 26, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 567 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 26 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Friday, June 25, and Saturday, June 26, 8 dead turtle strandings were verified (three from Alabama, 3 from Mississippi, two from Louisiana). In addition, four live, oiled turtles were captured as part of the on-water search and rescue operation by the Unified Command. There are now 127 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>These include 91 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 36 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 101 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. These include the 89 
captured or collected turtles from on-water operations (91 live turtles, 3 found alive that died in rehabilitation and 3 collected dead ), six live stranded turtles (two caught in oil skimming operations), and six dead stranded sea turtles. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 567 turtles verified from April 30 to June 26, a total of 425 stranded turtles were found dead, 44 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 36 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased 
detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to June 26, 55 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. One dead dolphin stranding was verified on June 26. Of the 55 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in 
rehabilitation. Fifty dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous 
years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies.

Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>

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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Situation: June 28, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA NRDA - Natural Resource Damage Assessment (effective June 26, 2010)

NOAA?s Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program (DARRP) continues to coordinate data collection efforts with natural resource trustees in five states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas), the Department of Interior (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management) and with BP (the Responsible Party or RP). Multiple agencies from each state are engaged. The trustees are collecting preassessment information on potential impacts to fish, shellfish, marine mammals, turtles, birds and other sensitive resources as well as their habitats, including wetlands, beaches, mudflats, bottom sediments, corals and the water column. The trustees are also assessing any lost human uses of these resources, for example, fishing, hunting, and beach recreational closures. Pre-oiling (baseline) and oiled environmental conditions are being documented for water, sediment, various habitats and biota, from Texas to the Florida Keys. Currently, over three dozen teams are active in the field on a daily basis conducting surveys and collecting samples. Highlights of some of these activities include:
  • More than 20 offshore research cruises have been conducted or are currently underway to characterize surface and sub-surface oil and baseline and impacted biological communities.
  • NRDA teams are working daily in the near-shore coastal waters to document the presence of surface and sub-surface oil and to collect oil samples for fingerprinting to confirm the origin of the oil. Multiple shoreline and SAV (submerged aquatic vegetation) assessment teams are conducting initial injury assessment studies at more than 50 shoreline sites a day to collect ephemeral data on the degree and extent of habitat oiling.
  • More than 1200 linear miles of shoreline have been surveyed and nearly 8,300 NRDA samples have been collected to date.
  • Marine mammal and turtle overflights have been conducted since the first days of the spill to establish baseline populations and more recently to document the presence of marine mammals and turtles in impacted areas as well as to locate stranded animals.
  • Teams of natural resource economists have deployed throughout the Gulf Coast to quantify the lost human uses due to the spill. They are conducting beach overflights and counts, as well as boat ramp intercept surveys in LA, MS, AL and FL that will be used to calculate human use losses such as lost beach days and boat and shoreline fishing trips.
For additional information, see the Deepwater Horizon DARRP Webpage.

NOAA Response
NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed four NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to continue to have an easterly component (ESE/SE) through Wednesday at speeds of 12-23 knots. This will result in the northern edge of the slick continuing to move northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle west of Freeport, Florida. The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta are also threatened by shoreline contacts in this forecast period. An overflight today observed significant amounts of oil south of the Delta extending towards Barataria Bay. Some of this oil may begin moving westward, threatening shorelines as far west as Caillou Bay.

OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA has expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico to include portions of the oil slick moving beyond the area?s current northern boundary, off the Florida panhandle?s federal-state waterline. This boundary was moved eastward to Cape San Blas. (See map) This federal closure does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in these areas is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area now represents 80,228 square miles, which is approximately 33.2 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than 66 percent of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 27, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 580 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 27 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Saturday, June 26, and Sunday, June 27, 6 turtle strandings were verified (One live externally oiled from Louisiana, two dead from Louisiana, one dead externally oiled from Alabama, another dead from Alabama and one dead from Florida). In addition, 7 live oiled turtles were captured as part of the on-water search and rescue operation by the Unified Command. There are now 135 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 98 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 37 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 110 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 580 turtles verified from April 30 to June 27, a total of 430 stranded turtles were found dead, 45 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 37 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to June 27, 55 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. One dead dolphin stranding was verified on June 26. Of the 55 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in rehabilitation. Fifty dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies. Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>

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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066 .
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401 .
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858 .
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511 .
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  • IncidentNews View the most up-to-date information on OR&R's IncidentNews site. [leaves OR&R site]
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  • Deepwater Horizon Joint Information Center This site is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water Horizon. The Horizon was engaged in drilling activity on behalf of BP at Mississippi Canyon Block 252, about 52 miles southeast of Venice, La. Leaves NOAA for a non-government site [leaves OR&R site]
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA, FDA, and Gulf Coast State Officials Affirm Commitment to Ensuring Safety of Gulf Coast Seafood
Federal and State Agencies Will Use Joint Protocol for Reopening Closed Waters

Gulf state health and fisheries officials joined with senior leaders from several federal agencies to affirm a shared commitment to ensuring the safety of seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, through closures of affected waters, surveillance, and with an eye toward reopening closed waters as soon as possible, consistent with public health goals.

Representatives from NOAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency met last week in New Orleans with state health officers and state fisheries directors from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to coordinate implementation of a joint protocol for sampling and reopening that will apply to both state and federal waters.

Together, they will implement a comprehensive, coordinated, multi-agency program to ensure that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to eat. This is important not only for consumers who need to know their food is safe to eat, but also for fishermen who need to be able to sell their products with confidence.

?No single agency could adequately ensure the safety of seafood coming from the Gulf following this tragedy, but in working together, we can be sure that tainted waters are closed as appropriate, contaminated seafood is not allowed to make it to market, and that closed waters can be reopened to fishing as soon as is safe,? said Eric Schwaab, NOAA assistant administrator for NOAA?s Fisheries Service. Read entire article.
NOAA Response
NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S.
Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed six NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Winds are forecast to be predominantly SE through Thursday at speeds of 14-22 knots. These strong onshore winds will continue to move the northern edge of the slick northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle west of Freeport, FL. The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta also continue to be threatened by shoreline contacts. To the west of the Delta, these winds may bring oil ashore between Barataria Bay and Caillou Bay ? any remaining floating oil may be moved quickly to the west as a strong westward coastal current develops over the next few days.
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 28, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 583 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 28 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Sunday, June 27, and Monday, June 28, 3 turtle strandings were verified (One live heavily oiled from Florida, two dead from Mississippi). There are 136 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>These include 98 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 38 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 111 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 583 turtles verified from April 30 to June 28, a total of 432 stranded turtles were found dead, 46 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 38 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.
The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Miss. and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to June 28, 55 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of the 55 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in rehabilitation. Fifty dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies. Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. For additional information, see the Deepwater Horizon DARRP Webpage. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>

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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066 .
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240 .
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401 .
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858 .
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511 .
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information.
The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA and University Scientists Launch Research Cruise to Determine Effects of Oil Spill on Endangered Whales

NOAA ship Gordon Gunter will depart today to continue its mission to evaluate the effects of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill on whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, including the endangered sperm whale. This project includes leading researchers from Cornell University, Oregon State University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who will work with NOAA scientists to monitor the distributions and movements of whales over the next several months.

Twenty-one species of marine mammals call the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico home, including the endangered sperm whale and a small, isolated population of baleen whales called Bryde?s (pronounced BRU-des) whales. Scientists will use a variety of tools during the mission to document how these species respond as oil comes into their habitats.
Gordon Gunter will be working in the Gulf until early August. NOAA scientists on the ship will be collecting tissues samples from sperm whales and other marine mammals, and will also be tracking their abundance and spatial distribution both with visual surveys and by recording sounds using a towed array of underwater microphones. The ship will also be measuring water characteristics and using acoustics to measure the amount of plankton, fish, and squid, the primary food for whales.
Read entire article.


NOAA Response
NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed six NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Onshore winds (SE/S) are forecast through next week, with speeds decreasing from approximately 20 knots Wednesday to 11?14 knots by Saturday. These strong onshore winds will continue to move the northern edge of the slick northwest, threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle west of Freeport, Florida.

The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound, and the Mississippi Delta also continue to be threatened by shoreline contacts. To the west of the Delta, these winds may bring oil ashore between Barataria Bay and Caillou Bay ? any remaining floating oil may be moved quickly to the west due to the development of a strong westward coastal current in this region.
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps.
The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico. It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>There is no change to the fisheries closure area today. The June 28 closure remains in effect. (See map.) This federal closure does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in these areas is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area represents 80,228 square miles, which is approximately 33.2 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than 66 percent of Gulf federal waters available for fishing.
Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective June 30, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>A total of 594 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to June 30 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. Between Tuesday, June 29, and Wednesday, June 30, 8 turtle strandings were verified (Five live in Mississippi, one dead in Florida and one oiled dead in Florida, one live oiled in Alabama). There are 142 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 98 sea turtles captured as part of on-water survey and rescue operations, and 44 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 113 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 594 turtles verified from April 30 to June 30, a total of 437 stranded turtles were found dead, 52 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 44 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period. This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to June 30, 56 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. One stranded dolphin from Mississippi was verified on June 30. Of the 56 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in rehabilitation. Fifty one dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.

A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.
Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies.

Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. For additional information, see the Deepwater Horizon DARRP Webpage. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>


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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066
  • .
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231
  • or 985.902.5240
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401 .
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858 .
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511 .
More Information about this Incident </AGL:CONTAINER>
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Re: NOAA update on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
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As the nation?s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the BP oil spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. More
GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse [leaves OR&R site] is a new online tool that employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA?) a web-based GIS platform that provides you with near-real time information about the response effort. The site offers you a "one-stop shop" for spill response information. The site integrates the latest data the federal responders have about the oil spill?s trajectory with fishery area closures, wildlife data and place-based Gulf Coast resources ? such as pinpointed locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships ? into one customizable interactive map.
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Situation: July 2, 2010 </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>NOAA Models Long-Term Oil Threat to Gulf and East Coast Shoreline
As part of the ongoing effort to use the state-of-the-art technology and scientific tools to aid response operations, NOAA is using modeling of historical wind and ocean currents to project the likelihood that surface oil from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill will impact additional U.S. coastline.

The modeling uses the high end of the flow rate estimate, and inputs the estimated amount of oil being skimmed, burned, and collected through the containment device?and accounts for the natural process of oil weathering. For further information, see Deepwater Horizon: Statistical Modeling.

NOAA Response
NOAA provides coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Experts from across the agency have mobilized to help contain the spreading oil spill and protect the Gulf of Mexico?s many marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, shellfish, and other endangered marine life. NOAA spill specialists are advising the U.S. Coast Guard on cleanup options as well as advising all affected federal, state and local partners on sensitive marine resources at risk in this area of the Gulf of Mexico. Overflights are conducted on a daily basis (weather permitting) to provide field verification of model trajectories. NOAA?s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) is supporting the response work in the Gulf with NOAA-owned ships and aircraft. Currently, NOAA has deployed six NOAA owned vessels in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Please see GeoPlatform.gov/gulfresponse for further information on the federal response to the Deepwater Horizon Incident.

Trajectories

Onshore winds (predominantly SE) are forecast through next week, with speeds from 5 to 15 kts. These onshore winds will continue to move the northern edge of the slick northwest threatening the barrier islands of Mississippi/Alabama and the Florida Panhandle west of Freeport, Florida.

The Chandeleur Islands, Breton Sound and the Mississippi Delta also continue to be threatened by shoreline contacts. To the west of the Delta, these winds may bring oil ashore between Barataria Bay and Caillou Bay ? any remaining floating oil may be moved quickly to the west due to the development of a strong westward coastal current in this region.
OR&R?s modeling team continues to generate daily trajectories for the nearshore surface oil. The offshore trajectory maps (previously displayed on this page, showing oil interacting with the Loop Current) have been temporarily suspended because the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for oil to enter the Loop Current from the source. Also, there have been no reports of recoverable oil in the Loop Current or Eddy Franklin and the oil has moved to the North and away from the Eddy Franklin. We will continue to monitor the area with overflights, vessel observations, and satellite analysis. When the threat of shoreline impacts to the Florida Keys increases, we will resume producing the offshore trajectory maps. The Loop Current is an area of warm water that comes up from the Caribbean, flowing past the Yucatan Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico.

It generally curves east across the Gulf and then flows south parallel to the west Florida coast. An eddy is water that rotates. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Closures </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>There is no change to the fisheries closure area today. The June 28 closure remains in effect. (See map.) This federal closure does not apply to any state waters. Closing fishing in these areas is a precautionary measure to ensure that seafood from the Gulf will remain safe for consumers. The closed area represents 80,228 square miles, which is approximately 33.2 percent of Gulf of Mexico federal waters. This leaves more than 66 percent of Gulf federal waters available for fishing. Any changes to the closure are announced daily at 12 p.m. Eastern at sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and take effect at 6 p.m. Eastern the same day. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals (effective July 1, 2010) </AGL:CONTAINER>

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<AGL:CONTAINER>The Unified Area Command continues to build a sea turtle observer program for all on-water oil clean up operations. The observers will primarily focus on controlled burn and skimmer fleet operations. The command's Wildlife Branch is working now to determine when, where, and how observers can be best positioned to reduce risks posed to sea turtles by oil containment and clean-up activities. In addition, the Wildlife Branch will begin to train additional sea turtle observers this weekend.
Throughout the spill, federal and state biologists have been surveying for and rescuing oiled sea turtles offshore using small vessels carrying trained sea turtle collection teams. If sea turtle observers can improve the sighting and collection of sea turtles prior to burn and skimming operations, then this is another way to reduce risks posed to turtles by the oil spill. In offshore waters, both free floating patches of sargassum seaweed and spilled oil tend to accumulate in convergence zones, places in the ocean where strong opposing currents meet. Sea turtles, especially juveniles, use these areas for food and cover. Burn operations sometimes occur there because of aggregated oil. Burn operations are managed by the Unified Area Command and are not to occur if wildlife are spotted prior to ignition. Burns can be stopped immediately by allowing fire-resistant boom surrounding the operation to open and the oil to spread too thin to support combustion. For more on the United Area Command observer program, go to http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/734531/

A total of 595 sea turtles have been verified from April 30 to July 1 within the designated spill area from the Texas/Louisiana border to Apalachicola, Florida. There are 142 sea turtles in rehabilitation centers. These include 99 sea turtles captured as part of the on-water survey and rescue operations, and 44 turtles that stranded alive. A total of 114 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil since verifications began on April 30. All others have not had visible evidence of external oil.

Of the 595 turtles verified from April 30 to July 1, a total of 437 stranded turtles were found dead, 52 stranded alive. Four of those subsequently died. Four live stranded turtles were released, and 44 live stranded turtles are being cared for at rehabilitation centers. Turtle strandings during this time period have been much higher in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle than in previous years for this same time period.

This may be due in part to increased detection and reporting, but this does not fully account for the increase.

The NOAA Ship Pisces reported a dead 25-foot sperm whale on June 15, 2010, that was located 150 miles due south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and approximately 77 miles due south of the spill site last week. The whale was decomposed and heavily scavenged. Samples of skin and blubber have been taken and will be analyzed. The whale had not evidence of external oil. Sperm whales are the only endangered resident cetacean in the Upper Gulf of Mexico. There are no records of stranded whales in the Gulf of Mexico for the month of June for the period 2003-2007.

From April 30 to July 1, 56 stranded dolphins have been verified in the designated spill area. Of the 56 strandings, five were live strandings, three of which died shortly after stranding, one was released and one is in rehabilitation. Fifty one dolphins were found stranded dead. Visible evidence of external oil was confirmed on five dolphins, two live and three dead stranded animals. We are unable at this time to determine whether three of the dead stranded dolphins were externally oiled before or after death. Since April 30, the stranding rate for dolphins in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle has been higher than the historic numbers for the same time period in previous years. In part, this may be due to increased detection and reporting and the lingering effects of an earlier observed spike in strandings for the winter of 2010.
A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. NOAA and its partners are analyzing the cause of death for the dead stranded and dead captured sea turtles and the stranded marine mammals.

Assessment

To help determine the type and amount of restoration needed to compensate the public for harm to natural resources as a result of the spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Document format: PDF, size: 90.8 K) will be conducted by NOAA and our co-trustee agencies.

Although many agencies are involved in this process, NOAA is a lead federal trustee for coastal and marine natural resources, including marine and migratory fish, endangered species, marine mammals and their habitats. The focus currently is to assemble existing data on resources and their habitats and collect baseline (pre-spill impact) data. Data on oiled resources and habitats are also being collected. For additional information, see the Deepwater Horizon DARRP Webpage. </AGL:CONTAINER>
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<AGL:CONTAINER>Important Contacts </AGL:CONTAINER>

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  • For NOAA media inquiries, please contact Ben Sherman, John Ewald or Rachel Wilhelm or phone 301.713.3066 .
  • To offer suggestions to clean, contain, recover or stop the flow of oil visit Deepwater Horizon Response Suggestions. This Web site also provides procedures and forms for Alternative Response Tool Evaluation System (ARTES) proposals.
  • For response-related inquiries, please phone the Joint Information Center (JIC) at 985.902.5231 or 985.902.5240 .
  • To report oil on land, or for general community information, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To report oiled or injured wildlife, please phone 866.557.1401 .
  • To learn about volunteer opportunities in all areas and what training is required, please phone 866.448.5816 .
  • To discuss spill related damage claims, please phone 800.440.0858 .
  • BP is asking fishermen for their assistance in cleaning up the oil spill. BP is calling this the Vessel of Opportunities Program and through it, BP is looking to contract shrimp boats, oyster boats and other vessels for hire to deploy boom in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Vessel of Opportunity Program, fishermen should phone 281.366.5511 .
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