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- 6/25: Biden, Mabus to visit Gulf coast
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Archive for October, 2010
10/31: Algal bloom
Federal officials say what may look like oil recently in the Gulf of Mexico near West Bay, La., actually turned out to be an algal bloom that had no hydrocarbons in it. Click for more.
10/30: Oiled grass
If you want to know how nasty the Gulf oil disaster was to the Louisiana marsh, just look at this close-up shot taken by photographer Drew Wheelan on Sept. 5, 2010. It shows non-degrated oiled marsh gras from Bay Jimmy, Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
10/29: Tar detour
Photographer Drew Wheelan highlights the detour that a snowy plover had to take around tarballs on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama. Click for more.
10/28: Surrounded
Photographer Drew Wheelan captured this image in September of a snowy plover surrounded by tarballs on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama. Click to learn more…
10/27: Documentary
PBS’s Frontline and ProPublica collaborated on an investigation into the BP oil disaster that resulted in an hour-long Oct. 26 documentary that looked into “the trail of problems — deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations — which long troubled the oil giant, BP.” Click to learn more.
10/26: Happy to be home
Chief Petty Officer David Mooney, an engineer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, greets his family Oct. 22 at Coast Guard Base Tongue Point. Click to learn more.
10/25: Dead dolphin
Photographer Drew Wheelan snapped the image of this dead dolphin on Raccoon Island in Louisiana on Sept. 5. The animal originally was found and reported on Sept. 28, he noted, and not sampled to test for oil spill contamination.
10/24: Release
Billy Maher, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist, released a sea turtle Oct. 21, 2010, some 50 miles south of Grand Isle, La.
10/23: Kreepin’
Photographer Jason Griffith found this scene outside the Southern Sting tattoo parlor in Larose, La., on July 29, 2010.
10/22: Decontamination
Louisiana photographer Jason Griffith snapped this image in August of a “jack-up” boat being used to decontaminate oiled boats northeast of Barataria Bay, La.
10/21: Coral sample
A scientist holds a Brittle Star collected by a submarine investigating the environmental effects of the Gulf oil disaster. Click to learn more.
10/20: Dead grass
Photographer and water scientist Jason Griffith of Baton Rouge, La., snapped this image of dead marsh grass Oct. 14 on the south side of the S.W. Pass near Burwood, La. Click for more.
10/19: Sheen
Photographer Kris Krug of the TedX Oilspill Expedition captured an image of this boat as it waded in June through the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Click to see more.
10/18: For sale
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster. Click for more.
10/17: Do not enter
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 15 shot at Perdido Beach, Ala. Click for more.
10/16: Surfing in
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 15 shot at Perdido Beach, Ala., of oil surfing into the shore. Click for more.
10/15: Remembering oil rally
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 14 shot from Mississippi of a coming rally. Over the next few days, we’ll review some of their great work. Click to see more.
10/14: Dead marsh
Here’s another aerial view of some of the dead marsh on a berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click for more.
10/13: Louisiana berm
Here’s an aerial view of some of the berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click to see more.
10/12: Buoy work
Two Greenpeace workers on Oct. 5 placed the last of six recovered environmental acoustic recording systems in the hold of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise in the Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon spill site. Click to learn more.
10/11: Searching
GRAND ISLE, La.- Jessica Odell, a natural resource advisor during the Deepwater Horizon response, scans the beach for the Piping Plover, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/10: Sand removal
GRAND ISLE, La. — Clean up crews with the Deepwater Horizon response remove oiled sand from a beach on Grand Terre 1, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/9: Gulfport cleanup
Contract workers cleaned oil on Oct. 8 from the BP Deepwater Horizon off rocks at the Port of Gulfport in Gulfport, Miss. Click for more.
10/8: Decontamination
Contractors with the Deepwater Horizon response cleaned oil from a vessel at the decontamination facility in Lafitte, La., on Oct. 6, 2010. Click for more.