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| Information to support effective and safe responses to oil spills in the coastal environment. |
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Coral Reefs and Oil Spills: A Guided Tour Get a basic overview of coral ecology, learn what types of things can harm coral, and see how responders must handle fragile coral reefs in their response and restoration efforts. |
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Dispersants: A Guided Tour Dispersants are one kind of countermeasure to oil spills. Here's a basic explanation of what they are and how they work. |
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Overview of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Includes links to many related resources, including photo galleries. |
Guided Tours
Learn about oil spills, chemical releases, hazardous waste sites, and some of the NOAA software and systems that emergency responders use to protect the public and sensitive environments. |
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Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill Short documentary revisiting the Exxon Valdez oil spill twenty years later, and the changes it brought about in its wake. |
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Oil Spills: A Guided Tour A number of things can result in the spill of a pollutant into the ocean. |
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Oil Trajectory Prediction Here's how our computer model predicted the oil spilled from the Exxon Valdez would travel across Prince William Sound, Alaska, during the first week after that spill started in March 1989. |
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OR&R Drift Card Studies Drift card studies conducted by NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R), Emergency Response Division (ERD). |
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Tarballs What are tarballs, and how do they form? |
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What's the Story on Oil Spills? When we talk about oil spills, how much oil are we talking about? |
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Software & Data Sets for Students and Teachers supporting Responding to Oil Spills Pages on our site that provide access to software created by the Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) to aid first responders, planners, and restoration practitioners. |
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Web Portals for Students and Teachers to sites about Responding to Oil Spills Pages on our site that provide information about and access to Web sites of closely-related agencies and programs. |
IncidentNews
News, photos, and other information about current and historical spill incidents. |
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