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BP Oil Spill 1 Year Anniversary Benefit Shows at House of Blues and Tipitinas Downtown
Spent the greater part of the evening yesterday, 4-21-11, runnin around downtown checkin out some great music at Lafayette Square with Anders, at the House of Blues A Benefit concert for Harmony For Health with Kevin Costner and the Voice of the Wetlands Allstars, with special guest Allen Toussaint, and slippin over to talk with [...]
New Oil Slick immediately off the coast of Grand Isle Louisiana
On March 18, 2011, I took a flight over the Gulf Coast with Bonny Schumaker of On Wings of Care, http://onwingsofcare.org/ from Horn Island Mississippi all the way to Raccoon Island to check on the status of wildlife, marshes, and other impacts from the BP Oil Spill. When we were slightly east of Grand Isle [...]
Ocean Springs revisited February 23 2011 not much has changed
I made a return trip to Ocean Spring’s Mississippi this week on 2/23/11 to see how things looked 10 months after the BP Oil spill. All of these images were taken in the area of Lat 30,21.8599N Long 88,46.123W and each image contains the specific coordinates in the metadata. In the news this week there [...]
Horn Island Sampling and UV Night Photography February 17th 2011 exposes extent of BP Oil Contamination
Last Thursday, 2/17/2011, I made a return trip to Horn Island with Jim Stiles and Strongbear of Boston Chemical Data to do extensive sampling over a large area of the island. Once again and to no surprise, the beach surface and subsurface was littered with tar balls both large and small, and residue from the [...]
Mississippi Coast UV Lighting and Sampling week of October 19
Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with my Sea Shepherd friends on the coast of Mississippi doing some sampling along the beaches and on the barrier islands along with photographing beaches at night using a powerful UV lighting system. The whole experience was “illuminating” to say the least. UV lighting illuminates or [...]
Trip to Grand Isle Louisiana Fish Kill October 21
All of these images are in the area of Long 29.199 N Lat 90.042 W. Headed down to Grand Isle La. For the first time in a few weeks primarily to document progress that has or has not been made since the BP oil Spill. Earlier this week I received some information regarding a possible [...]
Whale Shark Search in the Gulf with Sea Shepherd
This past Saturday, 9/4/10, I had the pleasure of joining pilot Bonny Schumaker (of OnWingsOfCare.org), Jim Franks, a longtime marine biologist at GCRL, and the Sea Shepherds on an aerial tour of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, primarily in search of Whale Sharks for status reports and to hopefully tag . “The whale-shark spotting and [...]
Trip to mississippi Sound with Sea Shepherds
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ On 9-1-10, I teamed up with Sea Shepherd for some water sampling in the Mississippi Sound, around Cat and Ship Island. Additionally I was able to check out the beaches in Bay St. Louis and Long Beach Miss. and did take [...]
Ocean Springs Mississippi August 30
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ 8/30/10 All images in the area of Lat 30,21.8181N Long 88,46.086W , specific GPS data is embedded in each image. Accompanied by Charles Harmison, I visited Ocean Springs Beach again, to collect additional water and soil samples to test for Marco [...]
Barataria Bay August 24
See the rest of my coverage from mid May up to date at http://nativeorleanian.com/category/bp-oil-spill/ 8/24/10 Barataria Bay, La. Images all in area of Lat 29,26.2183N Long 89,50.1794W, Continuing the sampling of the gulf coast with Boston Chemical Data, www.labs.pro, accompanied by Strongbear, Brian Moore from Boston Chemical and Boat Captain Al Walker and Tracy Palmisano. [...]
Ocean Springs Mississippi August 21
All images taken 8/21/10 in Ocean Springs Miss., Lat. 30,21.7755N Long 88,46.0167W, specific locations are embedded in the meta data. All images are taken on the beach in Ocean Springs, straight North of the western tip of Horn Island. I was accompanied by Lorrie and Bubba Williams who are local fishermen, specifically crabbers. It is [...]