The Deepwater Impact Tour

I recently put together a Google Earth tour showing the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in relation to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Marine Ecoregions – these latter two layers provided by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC).  Here is the result and my organization’s original blog posting. It’s mind-boggling to see how many and to what extent the MPAs are being affected.  Of particular note is the spill’s overlap with the Northern Gulf of Mexico Ecoregion, which contains over 60 percent of the tidal marshes of the United States. 60 percent. Just think about that.

I posted the original tour nearly two weeks ago. Very quickly, it was posted to Google Earth Outreach and picked up by the CEC, who created a YouTube video based on the tour:

See also the Huffington Post and Protected Planet Ocean.

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