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Above, Under, and Through the Ice: Demonstrating Technologies for Oil Spill...
This is the third in a series of posts about Arctic Shield 2013 by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Zach Winters-Staszak. Read his first post, “Arctic-bound” and his second post, “Breaking...
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NOAA and Private Industry Share Data to Improve Our Understanding of the Arctic
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Acting Chief of Staff Kate Clark. Ongoing and accelerated changes in the Arctic, including the seasonal loss of sea ice and opening up of the...
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National Research Council Releases NOAA-Sponsored Report on Arctic Oil Spills
The Coast Guard Cutter Healy broke ice for the Russian-flagged tanker Renda on their way to Nome, Alaska, in January of 2012 to deliver more than 1.3 million gallons of petroleum products to the city...
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Join NOAA for a Tweetchat on Preparing for Arctic Oil Spills
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a state-of-the-art icebreaker and the August 2014 home of a team of researchers evaluating oil spill technologies in the Arctic. (U.S. Coast Guard) As Arctic waters...
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Adventures in Developing Tools for Oil Spill Response in the Arctic
This is a post by the Office of Response and Restoration’s Zachary Winters-Staszak. This is the third in a series of posts about the Arctic Technology Evaluation supporting Arctic Shield 2014. Read the...
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NOAA’s Online Mapping Tool ERMA Opens up Environmental Disaster Data to the...
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard using ERMA during the response to Hurricane Isaac in 2012. (NOAA) This is a post by the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration’s Jay Coady, Geographic Information...
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Who Is Funding Research and Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico After the...
This is a post by Kate Clark, Acting Chief of Staff with NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration, and Frank Parker, Associate Director for the NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program, with NOAA’s National...
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What Have We Learned About Using Dispersants During the Next Big Oil Spill?
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Five Years Later This is the eighth in a series of stories over the coming weeks looking at various topics related to the response, the Natural Resource Damage...
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From Natural Seeps to a Historic Legacy, What Sets Apart the Latest Santa...
The pipeline release allowed an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil to reach the Pacific Ocean, shown here where the oil entered Refugio State Beach. (NOAA) The response to the oil pipeline break on...
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What Do We Know Today About Microbeads and Microplastics in the Ocean?
Microbeads are tiny pieces of polyethylene plastic added to health and beauty products, such as some cleansers and toothpastes. They can pass through wastewater treatment processes and end up in the...
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