Comments on: Deepwater Horizon

By: Justin Meyers

Justin Meyers — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:25:28 +0000

The USGS has plenty of data located here: http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster/201004_Oilspill_GulfOfMexico/

Justin Meyers

By: Amy Biscamp Wilkie

Amy Biscamp Wilkie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:42:04 +0000

For information about response efforts, how
to help, or available assistance, I encourage you to visit
http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/deepwater-bp-oil-spill,
http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon, or http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/.
Small businesses may also find resources by visiting
http://www.sba.gov or calling 1-(800)-659-2955.

By: Zero

Zero — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:26:59 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:23:33 +0000

My husband (a fisheries biologist and ecologist) and I (former bio. sci. tech. for NMFS and ecologist)came down to the coast. We were struck by the almost complete absence of shorebirds and pelicans from the Tyndall end of Mexico Beach until the seemingly protected salt-marshes of Apalachicola where they appeared to be congregated in exile. We stopped roadside in Port St. Joe and looked at the shore. We found several small tarballs and an obsidian-like substance that was oddly sticky when rubbed (we are currently trying to determine what it actually is). The birds apparently had the good sense to evacuate Mexico Beach, yet humans were still frolicking on the shore and in the surf only yards away (on the unprotected side as if it would really matter) from countless miles of improperly deployed boom. Does no one else see anything wrong with that picture?

By: Foot

Foot — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:50:16 +0000

Not downloadable data, but…

http://www.geoplatform.gov/

I should point out: clearly, BP does not have all GIS data.

By: glenn

glenn — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:38:58 +0000

hey Drew, what happened to your open letter to BP?

By: Qunicy Webster

Qunicy Webster — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:19:07 +0000

If you all don’t have the stones to keep the articles you put up even after being pressured to take them down, how can you be credible?

http://thegisinstitute.org/blog/deepwater-horizon/deepwater-gis-data-concerns/

Bring it back.

By: Bob Gaspirc

Bob Gaspirc — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:44:59 +0000

If geospatially enabled data are published, GIS professionals from other disciplines could review and analyze. From a solultion perspective, many eyes on the problem, often lead to alternate solutions.

Is there plan to offer blocks of lets say 8-24 hours of work to volunteer GIS groups who could work remotely, (given the size of north america – almost 24/7, complete a project task/activity and then post back to a named directory for use by the command group?

If there is a volunteer GIS professional group already formed, please let us know – thanks -

By: ALM

ALM — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:54:11 +0000

Since you said you’ve been primarily supporting the USCG and the LANG, and are listing off a steady stream of governmental folks instead of BP folks, where is that non-BP data being published?

By: drew

drew — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:55:26 +0000

Hi GAIA -

BP’s IT department is keeping the data locked-up tight – I’d urge you to ask your elected officials why this is true, and/or ask for the data under FOIA rules…

By: ALM

ALM — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:18:37 +0000

As a GIS professional who lives on the coast, I’ve been trying to find some real data about what’s happening. Are you posting your 150 data layers somewhere people other than BP and Fed official can see it?