Gulf of Mexico

Brittneigh Campbell POS 303 BP Oil Spill Survey Research Question How did the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 affect our economy and environment, and what does the future hold, with regard to the environment, oil drilling, and sustainability? Introduction For the best range of participants and the east of analyzation, I chose to conduct an electronic survey. I posted the survey (publically) on Facebook. This allowed people from all over the country, from almost all sections of social-economic

peak fishing seasons. The coastline as we see it today is, from a geologic perspective, a very recent phenomenon that dates back only about 3,000 years. In fact, prior to around 8,000 B.C., the area of the modern shoreline was high and dry, with the Gulf coast far to the east of its present position. This is because, in earlier millennia, global sea level was as much as 300 feet lower, with much of the world’s water supply inaccessible in vast continental ice sheets and montane glaciers that were far

At 6:10 am on Monday, August 29th, a class 4 sea tempest named Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast, ruining to everything in its way. On August 24th, the temperature of the sea off the bank of the Bahamas floated around 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Warm, damp air was ascending from the sea surface. As the air rose, it consolidated to frame an arrangement of electrical storms. This buildup discharges heat, which warms the cool demeanor of the environment, making it rise. As that air

In addition, they had to find the most efficient and effective way to remove the oil from the ocean and gulf to keep it from spreading to the shorelines while preparing cleanup operations. After the explosion of the oil tanker, one of the first actions of BP was to place booms around the spill, to prevent oil from reaching the shorelines, so they could figure

Cara Greenberg IDS 3214 5472007 Mini Project 2 Gulf Ecosystem Services and How They Serve Us Coastal ecosystems are among the most productive on the planet, providing all of 70 percent of total global ecosystem services and housing 10 percent of the Earth’s total population (13 percent of its urban population) despite accounting for only 2 percent of the Earth’s land surface (Costanza 2011). Natural ecosystems offer a myriad of economic goods and services fundamental to human life including

On August 29, 2005 the Gulf Coast was awakened by a malevolent storm named Hurricane Katrina. It was a category three storm with winds up to 125 mph that destroyed Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida all in under a week (E. Kolbert). Hurricane Katrina was classified as one of the deadliest hurricanes in history (University of R.I.). The damage of Katrina overall costed over about 100 billion, being the costliest hurricanes in the United States(University of R.I.). Overall Hurricane Katrina was one

After the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, around nine thousand jobs were lost in 8 months. Over one billion, six hundred million dollars was lost by the fishing industry (Schleifstein). Tam Huynh, a fisherman in the Gulf Coast made fifty thousand dollars per year before the oil spill. Five years later, Huynh makes around twelve thousand, five hundred dollars a year, a quarter of what he made before. (Smith, “Five Years After BP”). BP offered to pay out five thousand dollars to individuals and twenty-five

co-leased oil and gas rights in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) and co-owned a producing well on the leasehold. A blowout occurred in the well while Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore-drilling unit (MODU) owned by Transocean (defendant), was engaged in drilling operations on the well. Deepwater Horizon broke off the well and sank. As a result, oil flowed from the well, through what remained of the riser that had connected the well to Deepwater Horizon, and into the Gulf. The United States government (plaintiff)

In the year of 2005 one tragic event had happened to the Gulf Coast of the United States. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm made landfall, and affected hundreds of thousands of people from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. These people were evacuated from their homes, and authority estimates that this hurricane generated more than $100 billion in damages. This hurricane was able to maintain winds up to 100 to 140 miles per hour and was 400 miles across. Hurricane Katrina started

There were a total of 48 counties that were studied along the Gulf Coast. These counties were used as the regions for how each state was subdivided. The coastal regions were made of 22 regions in Florida, 2 regions in Alabama, 3 regions in Mississippi, 9 regions in Louisiana, and 12 regions in Texas. When the entire coastline of Florida was studied, Florida has 1,350 miles of coastline. There are 35 counties that are along the coastline of Florida. One additional county was used that is not along