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.
CBI will continue to update these datasets with future spill trajectory projections. Each update will include geospatial data on the spill trajectory, areas of possible landfall, and the affected protected areas. We want these freely available data will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about the oil spill and its ecological effects.
More information is available at the Data
Basin Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico page.
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