Gulf Ship Tour

Gulf Ship Tour, what we learned:

We embarked on a three-month expedition to support independent research into the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster. Join us as we present highlights from the tour, take your questions and let you know what we're doing next.

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We traveled throughout the Gulf, bringing independent research scientists on board to examine various aspects of oil spill impacts. Whether by ship, helicopter or even by submarine, see where we went and what we saw by selecting layers to view on the map below. View our ship's route, blogs, images, videos and tweets by selecting the checkmark next to the layer name. Then click on the icon to view content or on the ship route's path to learn more about that leg of the tour.

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The latest updates

 

The End of the Beginning – on to the next stage

Blog by phorsman | August 19, 2010 3 comments

Today, as news of the discovery of a 22-mile plume of oil droplets is revealed in a report in the Journal, Science the first leg of the Greenpeace expedition on board the Arctic Sunrise ended.  The scientists, Drs. Jo Lopez and Chuck...

Investigation Under Resourced!?

Blog by dhowells | August 19, 2010 2 comments

After leaving Dry Tortugas out in the Gulf, we came about 10 miles from Key West to take a few people off and put a few on board. The sponge guys left and we were happy to work with them. Now we picked up scientists Caz Taylor and Erin...

Reflecting on the Gulf of Mexico from the North Sea

Blog by Michelle Frey | August 19, 2010 1 comment

Simran, from the US, who spent 3 weeks helping with clean-up operations for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster - writes from on board the Esperanza... I’ve been aboard the Esperanza for several days now. Having made it through...

Fish Story

Blog by jhocevar | August 18, 2010

We’re out in the Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West and hundreds of miles from the BP Horizon site. The weather’s been kind so far, as you can see from the ship’s webcam , which has enabled us to get in three...

Oil Plumes: Pressure on Scientists and Pursuit of the Truth

Blog by Kert Davies | August 18, 2010

"The oil is on the surface. There aren't any plumes." This was one of Tony Hayward's famously foolish proclamations during his desperate final months as the CEO of British Petroleum, before he was relocated to Russia, perhaps to...

Feeling a little Crabby

Blog by dhowells | August 17, 2010 1 comment

By now you've either seen Paul Horsmans' blog or read the news on the latest study showing about 80% of the oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster is unaccounted for contradicting the White House’s rose garden view of what happened...

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