Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
My regular day job is as a fish ecologist at the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. It is a really neat place to work and I enjoy my job very much. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill could have terrible effects on the reserve and surrounding marshlands in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Over this last week, our staff has been working very diligently to gather as much data as we possibly could before we are impacted by the oil. Many agencies in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama have been doing the same thing. Today we can smell oil fumes at our home in Ocean Springs. If you are interested in more information, NOAA keeps an updated website with forecasts and trajectories of the spill.
I want to share photos of our beautiful reserve prior to this environmental disaster. Now we are just waiting to see how bad it will actually be.
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