A 75,000 x 75,000 meter grid covering the Gulf of Mexico, created to
identify possible areas of landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill.
Using oil spill trajectories produced by the Ocean Circulation Group and
the Optical Oceanography Laboratory at the College of Marine Science,
University of South Florida, and protected areas data catalogued in
PAD-US (CBI Edition) , we provide a preliminary attempt to identify
ecological resources that may be affected by the spill.
By overlaying these projected trajectories on a standardized grid, we
can select areas that may contain oil from the spill, or are likely to
contain oil in the future. We then identify protected areas that are
likely to be most directly affected by the spill immediately, and in the
near future. We list these areas in a Google spreadsheet, located here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Au8mO03xk4w1dGlZdG92X1NodERRVUUybVZCWWlFQUE
Last updated on 7/13/2010 using USF WFS ROMS oil spill trajectories
model for 7/15/2010 00h UTC.