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Celebrating the Birth of a Long-Standing Partnership: Happy 228th to Our Friends at the Coast Guard!

Posted Fri, 08/03/2018 - 14:14
A group of people on a boat posing for a photo.

As the U.S. Coast Guard prepares to celebrate its 228th birthday, we’d like to show our appreciation to them for all their hard work in helping us fight the threat of marine pollution.

The U.S. Coast Guard and NOAA have a long history of collaboration. While the U.S. Coast Guard continues ahead on a journey to keep our coastal waters clean of marine pollution, NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration is right by their side to provide the scientific support to help them do it.

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10 Years Later: Restoring Injured Natural Resources after Cosco Busan
By Alyssa Dillon, NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration
alyssa.dillon Mon, 11/06/2017 - 22:31
A view of the back of a container ship with a bridge in the background.

This is the last in a week-long series of blogs in remembrance of the Cosco Busan oil spill that happened a decade ago on Nov. 7, 2007. This piece focuses on the continued restoration efforts funded by the $44.4 million settlement and takes a closer look at two species in particular — eelgrass and rockweed.

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Sentinels of the Coast: Surveying the Beaches After Cosco Busan
By Mary Jane Schramm
alyssa.dillon Mon, 11/06/2017 - 22:18
Two people on a beach in white jumpsuits, one is reaching down to collect a sample.

This is the fourth in a week-long series of blogs in remembrance of the Cosco Busan oil spill that happened a decade ago on Nov. 7, 2007. Mary Jane Schramm shares the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary’s response efforts and the volunteer involvement that took place following the spill.

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Assessing Cosco Busan: The Damage From 10 Years Ago
By Greg Baker
alyssa.dillon Mon, 11/06/2017 - 21:58
A wide shot view of the bay with a bridge in the background.

This is the third in a week-long series of blogs in remembrance of the Cosco Busan oil spill that happened a decade ago on Nov. 7, 2007. In his blog, Greg Baker talks about the assessment phase that followed the initial response.

 

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The Initial Call: Looking Back 10 Years to the Day of the Cosco Busan Oil Spill
By Jordan Stout
alyssa.dillon Mon, 11/06/2017 - 19:47
A group of people and press gather around a media vehicle.

This is the second in a week-long series of blogs in remembrance of the Cosco Busan oil spill that happened a decade ago on Nov. 7, 2007. In his blog, Jordan Stout goes back to the morning of the spill and the days and months that followed.

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National Marine Sanctuaries
Remembering Cosco Busan: An Overview of the 2007 Oil Spill
By Patrise Henkel
alyssa.dillon Mon, 11/06/2017 - 19:36
A large shipping vessel loaded with containers. A gash appears on the port side over the text "Hanjin."

This is the first in a week-long series of blogs in remembrance of the Cosco Busan oil spill that happened 10 years ago on Nov. 7, 2007. In this blog, Patrise Henkel offers an overview of the spill, its impact on the San Francisco Bay and the outcome that followed.

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Solving the Case of the Mystery Sheen

Posted Mon, 08/21/2017 - 18:19
By Jordan Stout, NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator
Two men lean over the edge of the boat to grab a sample of the sheen.

In early March 2017, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was returning to its home base when the aircrew spotted a silvery sheen in the water about 35 miles west of San Diego, California.

I imagine the conversation among the crew went something like this:

Hey, that looks like it might be oil…

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Keeping the Oil Pollution Act Updated

Posted Thu, 08/17/2017 - 15:14
By Doug Helton
A man walks along a rocky, oil-covered beach.

On Aug. 18, 1990, President H.W. Bush signed the Oil Pollution Act.  The act gave NOAA and other agencies improved authorities for spill prevention, response, and restoration in the nation’s navigable waters and shorelines.

The act ensured those responsible for an oil spill must cleanup and restore the environment, and compensate the public for its lost uses—like beach and recreational fishery closures—from the time of the incident until those natural resources fully recover.

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Polar Bears and Response Drills in Alaska

Posted Tue, 08/15/2017 - 15:36
A man stands on a sandy beach with four crew members behind him in two boats searching the area.

How do you handle a polar bear covered in oil?  That was just one aspect of the annual Mutual Aid Deployment exercise last month on Alaska’s North Slope oil field.

Staff members from our Emergency Response Division and the Assessment and Restoration Division as well as other NOAA offices participated in the three-day exercise. Each year government agencies, oil companies, and oil spill removal organizations in the region work together to respond to a simulated oil spill in Alaska.

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