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The Honorable Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | NOAA NOAA’s Role in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Protecting Oceans, Coasts, & Fisheries AGU 13 December 2010
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The Honorable Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D.Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | NOAA
NOAA’s Role in the Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillProtecting Oceans, Coasts, & Fisheries
AGU 13 December 2010
5 Conduct & share science
Keep seafood safe
Protect wildlife & habitats
Assess damage
Restore the natural resources that were injured
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Doing Science…
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vs.normal
conditionscrisis
conditions
TANKER SPILL
CLEAN-UPTECHNIQUES
Lessons from Exxon Valdez
BIOLOGICALIMPACTS
Larva
Adult
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October 15, 2010 5
July 28
SATELLITE data
AIRCRAFT data
SHIP data
GLIDER & FLOAT data
ForecastingTrajectory Forecast — MC252
Spot Weather ForecastMay 13
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Seafood Safety
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parts per billion (ppb)0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000
Benzo(a)pyrene
Dibenz(a,h)anthracene
Benzo(b)fluoranthene
Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene
Benz(a)anthracene
Benzo(k)fluoranthene
Naphthalene
Chrysene
Anthracene/Phenanthrene
Pyrene
Fluorene
Fluoranthene
Levels of Concern
Max Re-opening samples
12 P
AHs
Mean Baseline Samples (2010)Mean Re-Opening Samples
Finfish Samples
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• 610 dead • 456 live, oiled, captured• 442 rehabilitated & released• 79 still in rehabilitation
Protect Wildlife & Habitats
Sea Turtles
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Assessing Damage
Phases of Natural Resource Damage Assessment
NRDA is a legal processAGU 13 December 2010 9
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Subsea & Subsurface Detection & Modeling
Ronald H. Brown Cruise
oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
www.gfdl.noaa.gov
Underwater plumesimulations
JAG Reporthttp://ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/JAG/reports.html
University of South Florida
UNH Monterey Bay Aquatic Research Institute (MBARI)USFCIMAR/University of Miami
UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean MappingWHOI
University of California at Santa Barbara Texas A&M
Academic PartneringThomas Jefferson Pisces Gordon Gunter Pelican (non-NOAA)
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Research
Weatherbird (non-NOAA)
NRDA CruisePenn StateWHOITemple UniversityUniversity of Louisiana (Lafayette)
NOAA WP3D
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Communicating to Scientists
AGU 201012
JAG Reports• 6/23 Subsea monitoring• 6/23 Location & movement
of subsurface oil• 9/7 Dissolved oxygen• Forthcoming:
Sub-sea/Sub-surface Detection & Monitoring
Communicating the Science
Other Reports• Flow Rate Technical Group• Oil Budget Calculator
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Centralized Data Access
• www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse• www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/DeepwaterHoriz
on/support.html• ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/JAG/• gulfseagrant.tamu.edu/oilspill/database.htm• www.noaa.gov/sciencemissions/bpoilspill.htm
l• www.data.gov• gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos
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Restoring the Gulf
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eat fishswim
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