Mississippi Canyon 252 wellhead location. Coordinates were from ERMA (http://gomex.erma.noaa.gov/ERMA/metadata?layer_id=5723).

A composite of "NESDIS anomalies" showing potential oil on surface of water in Gulf of Mexico. Developed by NOAA SMU by merging other NESDIS anomaly files developed by NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD/Satellite Analysis Branch. The area covered by the composite is larger than the area for any individual image; the composite indicates indications of oil for one or more days within the observation period (April 28, 2010 to August 21, 2010).

This composite disregards the NESDIS anomaly from 18-May-10 1400 CDT due to an error in the original NESDIS analysis. It also uses a revised analysis for 5/17/2010 2348Z (1848 CDT), 5/18/2010 0348Z (5/17/10 2248 CDT), and 5/21/2010 1611Z (1111 CDT)

This dataset provides estimates of hours of oil exposure along the Gulf Coast region extending from 86W to 92W for the time period of 16 April and 14 August 2010. A lagrangian modeling approach, utilizing daily NOAA satellite derived analysis of oil surf.

The goal of this project is to develop an interdisciplinary topic map to facilitate understanding and research of the impact of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Incident. Two sub- topic maps are to be developed, a generic, basic-level one for the general public, journalists, and government officials; and a specific, interdisciplinary one for oil spill researchers. The specific, interdisciplinary topic map is expected to not only facilitate understanding of the specific impacts, but will also facilitate knowledge discovery through interdisciplinary knowledge fusion. Presentation Yejun Wu, Amanda Lehman, David Dunaway, and Rachel Gifford, 2013. Interdisciplinary oil spill taxonomy and topic map. Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference (organized by Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative), January 21-13, 2013. New Orleans, LA. Oil Spill Topic Map Visualization Search Tool link: http://oilspilltopics.wordpress.com/

This map shows the oil trajectory and estimated beach oil in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on 01-May-2010. Further details on the report can be acquired on ERMA. This forecast is based on the NWS spot forecast from Friday, April 30 PM. Currents were obtained from the NOAA Gulf of Mexico model, TexasA&M/TGLO, and NAVO models. Data Source: https://erma.noaa.gov/gulfofmexico/erma.html#/layers=1+31937+31936&x=-88.64153&y=29.14656&z=9&panel=layer

Oceanographic data were collected aboard the PISCES in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-26 to 2010-07-29 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0084594)

This web map combines a few map services, including oil spill projections and stranded marine animals, to illustrate the impact of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico over time.This web map has been updated a few times over the last several months to present different information about the impacts of the oil spill. In this latest update, you will be able to see the impacts over time using the new web map capabilities of ArcGIS Online. Click the Play button on the time slider to view the map layers over time or adjust the time slider to see a specific time period.The map includes a daily projection for the trajectory of the oil spill plume in the Gulf of Mexico. These projections were created daily by the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration during the course of the oil spill. This layer includes oil trajectory projections from May 2 to August 5 of 2010. The layer is time-enabled so you can display the daily trajectories over time.The map also displays a layer of protected resources, which includes confirmed marine mammal and sea turtle stranding locations. A stranding is defined as a dead or debilitated animal that washes ashore or is found in the water. Stranding locations were collected and verified in the field by a network of responders. This data was provided by the National Marine Fisheries Service. This layer was updated by Esri with a few additional attributes (e.g. common name, description, sample photo, URL link) for reference purposes. This layer is also time-enabled so you can display the standard marine animals that were observed over time.These map layers are displayed on a imagery basemap for reference purposes but you can easily switch to another basemap (e.g. topo map, street map) for a different perspective.

The British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the biggest oil spill in US history. To assess the impact of the oil spill on the saltmarsh plant community, we examined Advanced Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) data flown over Barataria Bay, Louisiana in September 2010 and August 2011. Oil contamination was mapped using oil absorption features in pixel spectra and used to examine impact of oil along the oiled shorelines. Results showed that vegetation stress was restricted to the tidal zone extending 14 m inland from the shoreline in September 2010. Four indexes of plant stress and three indexes of canopy water content all consistently showed that stress was highest in pixels next to the shoreline and decreased with increasing distance from the shoreline. Index values along the oiled shoreline were significantly lower than those along the oil-free shoreline. Regression of index values with respect to distance from oil showed that in 2011, index values were no longer correlated with proximity to oil suggesting that the marsh was on its way to recovery. Change detection between the two dates showed that areas denuded of vegetation after the oil impact experienced varying degrees of re-vegetation in the following year. This recovery was poorest in the first three pixels adjacent to the shoreline. This study illustrates the usefulness of high spatial resolution airborne imaging spectroscopy to map actual locations where oil from the spill reached the shore and then to assess its impacts on the plant community. We demonstrate that post-oiling trends in terms of plant health and mortality could be detected and monitored, including recovery of these saltmarsh meadows one year after the oil spill.

Unknown oceanographic data were collected aboard the Ridley Thomas in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-06-26 to 2010-06-29 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include unknown data types. The instruments used to collect these data included unknown instruments along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0084612)

This dataset contains Rayleigh corrected reflectance data from 19 MODIS images collected between April and July 2010, along with their corresponding maps of surface oil volume, maps of relative oil thickness of different classes, and maps of probability distributions of different thicknesses. Surface oil was estimated by spatially scaling up AVIRIS observations to synoptic MODIS measurements, which were the used to derived oil classification and probability maps.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico caused the rig to sink and oil began leaking into the Gulf. Before it was finally capped in mid-July, almost 5 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf. The magnitude of this spill is something our nation has not seen before, causing significant impacts to wildlife and the fishing community along the large coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Florida. On April 20, 2011 the Trustee Council for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill reached an agreement with BP to start restoration planning and implementation before the ongoing damage assessment was completed. This unprecedented arrangement allowed the Trustee Council to move forward with up to $1 billion in restoration projects. This map provides basic location and descriptive information about the restoration projects currently funded under this agreement.

The simulation is based on a Lagrangian particle tracker with random walk diffusion model. Input consists of latitude and longitude positions of parcels in the oil contaminated area, wind, current, and a large array of random numbers. In addition, new parcels are released at the location of the damaged Macondo rig. Twenty-five parcels are released at each position, and when combined with the diffusion coefficient (set to 10m2/s) results in a natural spread of the parcels with time. The parcel location is based on NASA MODIS satellite imagery, SAR imagery and NOAA oil trajectory maps. The parcels are advected at 80% of the ocean current speed and at 3% of the wind speed. Bilinear interpolation is applied at each timestep to determine the currents and winds at each parcel position. The pseudo-random numbers are uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 and generated by the efficient Mersenne Twister algorithm. The 10-m wind and near-surface ocean currents are provided from an operational, data assimilating forecast system run by the Naval Oceanographic Office called the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) in the Intra-Americas Sea domain which covers the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, interpolated to a 3-km Cartesian grid. NCOM assimilates water temperature, salinity analyses, and satellite altimeter data, and the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction System (COAMPS) provides the atmospheric forcing. An examination of NCOM data and the oil spill simulation, as well as in-situ data from buoys, weather reanalysis maps, tide gauge data, scatterometer data, and HF radar show that two weather systems altered the currents and water levels such that oil was pushed into the western Mississippi Sound and the Rigolets. An easterly wind fetch from intensifying Hurricane Alex provided the first inland push, followed by a westward-drifting non-tropical low which had formed off the western edge of a Gulf cold front. In both cases, a generally weak pressure gradient was replaced by strong easterly winds which not only switched westerly coastal currents to an easterly direction, but also increased inland water levels by 0.6-0.8 m. These results show that cyclones located west of the oil spill can dramatically alter oil transport. Use constraints: We request that you acknowledge the Northern Gulf Institute as the source of this information. Mississippi State University makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the distribution constitute such a warranty. Mississippi State University can not assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.

description: Oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-15 to 2010-07-21 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0084593); abstract: Oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship Pisces in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-15 to 2010-07-21 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0084593)

Web Map DetailsThis Web Map contains the DWH MDBC Restoration Portfolio Expedition Working Areas, 2021–2024 (for StoryMap) Feature Layer, which depicts the locations of the 2021–2024 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC) Restoration Portfolio field activities, and the DWH MDBC Restoration Portfolio Gulf Reference Areas (for StoryMap) Feature Layer, which contains point and polygon layers representing three important locations and/or regulated areas in the Gulf: the location of the Deepwater Horizon Wellhead, National Marine Sanctuary boundaries, and Habitat Areas of Particular Concern. It supports the Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Expeditions StoryMap, where more details about each expedition can be found.Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Restoration BackgroundIn 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill occurred off the coast of Louisiana. It became the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, causing extensive natural resource injuries across the northern Gulf of America (formally known as Gulf of Mexico). Since the damaged wellhead was about 5,000 feet below the surface, a portion of the 134 million gallons of oil that spilled from it stayed in the deep sea. As a result, the oil spill injured more than 770 square miles of deep-sea habitat.After the DWH oil spill, federal and state agencies formed the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustee Council (DWH Trustees) to assess the impacts and identify actions to restore injured habitats, species, and the services they provide. From this assessment, a comprehensive restoration plan was developed to put the $8.8 billion in funds from the 2016 settlement with BP to work for the Gulf. One restoration type the DWH Trustees identified in the open ocean focuses on an important ecosystem along the seafloor: Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC).To restore these important habitats, the DWH trustees identified three goals:Improve understanding of mesophotic and deep-sea communities to inform better management and ensure resiliency.Restore mesophotic and deep benthic invertebrate and fish abundance and biomass for injured species, focusing on high-density mesophotic and deep-water coral sites and other priority hard-ground areas to provide a continuum of healthy habitats from the coast to offshore.Actively manage valuable mesophotic and deep-sea communities to protect against multiple threats and provide a framework for monitoring, education, and outreach.Four interconnected projects were selected to meet the goals of MDBC restoration: Mapping, Ground-Truthing, and Predictive Habitat Modeling; Habitat Assessment and Evaluation; Coral Propagation Technique Development; and Active Management and Protection. Learn more about each of these projects on the NOAA Fisheries Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Restoration page.Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary boundaries downloaded from: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/library/imast_gis.htmlGulf Habitat Areas of Particular Concern boundaries downloaded from: https://www.habitat.noaa.gov/protection/efh/newInv/data/gulf_of_mexico/gulf_hapc.zipDeepwater Horizon wellhead location sourced from: https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/reports/safety/2-deepwaterhorizon-roi-uscg-volume-i-20110707-redacted-final.pdfNOAA Accessibility Statement: https://www.noaa.gov/accessibilityThis website uses Esri mapping and spatial analytics software. Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACR®) for Esri products, solutions, and services are available on the Esri website. More on Esri's commitment to Section 508 compliance is located on their accessibility page along with a page of frequently asked accessibility questions for their products.NOAA Privacy Policy: https://www.noaa.gov/protecting-your-privacy

The simulation is based on a Lagrangian particle tracker with random walk diffusion model. Input consists of latitude and longitude positions of parcels in the oil contaminated area, wind, current, and a large array of random numbers. In addition, new parcels are released at the location of the damaged Macondo rig. Twenty-five parcels are released at each position, and when combined with the diffusion coefficient (set to 10m2/s) results in a natural spread of the parcels with time. The parcel location is based on NASA MODIS satellite imagery, SAR imagery and NOAA oil trajectory maps. The parcels are advected at 80% of the ocean current speed and at 3% of the wind speed. Bilinear interpolation is applied at each timestep to determine the currents and winds at each parcel position. The pseudo-random numbers are uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 and generated by the efficient Mersenne Twister algorithm. The 10-m wind and near-surface ocean currents are provided from an operational, data assimilating forecast system run by the Naval Oceanographic Office called the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) in the Intra-Americas Sea domain which covers the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, interpolated to a 3-km Cartesian grid. NCOM assimilates water temperature, salinity analyses, and satellite altimeter data, and the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction System (COAMPS) provides the atmospheric forcing. An examination of NCOM data and the oil spill simulation, as well as in-situ data from buoys, weather reanalysis maps, tide gauge data, scatterometer data, and HF radar show that two weather systems altered the currents and water levels such that oil was pushed into the western Mississippi Sound and the Rigolets. An easterly wind fetch from intensifying Hurricane Alex provided the first inland push, followed by a westward-drifting non-tropical low which had formed off the western edge of a Gulf cold front. In both cases, a generally weak pressure gradient was replaced by strong easterly winds which not only switched westerly coastal currents to an easterly direction, but also increased inland water levels by 0.6-0.8 m. These results show that cyclones located west of the oil spill can dramatically alter oil transport. We request that you acknowledge the Northern Gulf Institute as the source of this information.

description: Profile and underway oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-24 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include current speed - east/west component (U) and current speed - north/south component (V). The instruments used to collect these data included ADCP along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ADCP used sonar to measure and record water current velocities and the distribution of suspended material over a range of depths. Absolute U- and V-component ocean current vectors from the ADCP collected can be used to create detailed maps of the distribution of water currents and suspended materials through the water column along the ship's path. The data from this ADCP is raw and unprocessed. Some of the datasets associated with this instrument are still incomplete and will be published as they become available. This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0081186); abstract: Profile and underway oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-24 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include current speed - east/west component (U) and current speed - north/south component (V). The instruments used to collect these data included ADCP along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ADCP used sonar to measure and record water current velocities and the distribution of suspended material over a range of depths. Absolute U- and V-component ocean current vectors from the ADCP collected can be used to create detailed maps of the distribution of water currents and suspended materials through the water column along the ship's path. The data from this ADCP is raw and unprocessed. Some of the datasets associated with this instrument are still incomplete and will be published as they become available. This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0081186)

Chemical, physical, profile and underway oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-06-15 to 2010-06-25 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include conductivity, current speed - east/west component (U), current speed - north/south component (V), dissolved oxygen, hydrostatic pressure, salinity, sound velocity, temperature and water density. The instruments used to collect these data included ADCP, CTD and oxygen meter along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each dataset is located in their individual metadata records. The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ADCP used sonar to measure and record water current velocities and the distribution of suspended material over a range of depths. Absolute U- and V-component ocean current vectors from the ADCP collected can be used to create detailed maps of the distribution of water currents and suspended materials through the water column along the ship's path. The data from this ADCP is raw and unprocessed. Some of the datasets associated with this instrument are still incomplete and will be published as they become available. This dataset also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. The CTD data underwent preliminary quality assurance and control procedures at the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC). Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers.

This dataset reports near-surface currents and sea surface roughness derived from X-band radar aboard R/V Walton Smith cruise WS17107 near the Taylor Energy oil leak site, Gulf of Mexico from 2017-04-19 to 2017-04-21. This data was collected during the CARTHE II sponsored Submesoscale Processes and LAgrangian Analysis on the SHelf (SPLASH) experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico. It was obtained from a coherent-on-receive marine X-band (9.5 GHz) radar (Braun et al., 2008), developed at Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Germany. The data includes backscatter images collected every 2-min that can be used to identify surface features such as fronts. The data also includes current velocity maps obtained by processing series of these images using 3-D Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) and overlays of the current maps over averaged backscatter images. This data was collected in the region of the abandoned Taylor Energy platform in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The data includes radar backscatter images as well as derived surface velocity maps. This dataset supports the publication: Androulidakis, Y., Kourafalou, V., Özgökmen, T., Garcia‐Pineda, O., Lund, B., Le Hénaff, M., Hu, C., Haus, B.K., Novelli, G., Guigand, C. and Kang, H., 2018. Influence of River‐Induced Fronts on Hydrocarbon Transport: A Multiplatform Observational Study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi:10.1029/2017jc013514

Unknown oceanographic data were collected aboard the THOMAS JEFFERSON in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-05-23 to 2010-05-28 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include unknown data types. The instruments used to collect these data included unknown instruments along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. (NODC Accession 0084596)

Chemical, physical and profile oceanographic data were collected aboard the RYAN CHOUEST in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-11 to 2010-07-13 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) and fluorescence. The instruments used to collect these data included CTD, fluorometer and gas chromatograph along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each data set is located in their individual metadata records. The CTD data underwent preliminary quality assurance and control procedures at the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC). This data set also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers. The Hydrocarbon Sensor Array data are raw and provisional. (NODC Accession 0084582)

Chemical, physical, profile and underway oceanographic data were collected aboard NOAA Ship GORDON GUNTER in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010-07-08 to 2010-07-16 in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill event on April 20, 2010, by the Subsurface Monitoring Unit (SMU), which consisted of multiple government and corporate agencies. These data include conductivity, current speed - east/west component (U), current speed - north/south component (V), dissolved oxygen, hydrostatic pressure, salinity, sound velocity, temperature and water density. The instruments used to collect these data included ADCP, CTD and oxygen meter along with other physical sampling devices. More specific information about each dataset is located in their individual metadata records. The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ADCP used sonar to measure and record water current velocities and the distribution of suspended material over a range of depths. Absolute U- and V-component ocean current vectors from the ADCP collected can be used to create detailed maps of the distribution of water currents and suspended materials through the water column along the ship's path. The data from this ADCP is raw and unprocessed. Some of the datasets associated with this instrument are still incomplete and will be published as they become available. This dataset also contains products created for use in real time analysis and decision support. These products may include charts, graphs, maps, plots, and GIS formatted data files. The CTD data underwent preliminary quality assurance and control procedures at the National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC). Cruise level information consisting of data management documents, cruise reports and plans, videos and pictures, and other miscellaneous documentation were gathered by the data managers.