Student Resources

Below are a few resources to help you get started on researching your topic; these are by no means comprehensive lists, so you need to also branch out on your own and investigate your topic independently!

Videos:

• PBS Frontline: The Spill (documentary)
• Deepwater Horizon: The Largest Oil Spill in the USA (documentary)
• BBC: The Tragic Oil Spill of America
• BBC: Profit Pollution and Deception; BP and the Oil Spill
• TEDTalks:
  • The true cost of oil
  • The oil spill’s toxic trade-off
  • The political chemistry of oil
  • The oil spill’s unseen villains- and victims
  • A robot that eats pollution
  • A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills
• After The Spill: Louisiana Water Stories (available for purchase)

Tutorials:

• WHOI Special Series: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Interactive Animations)
• PBS Learning Media: Oil Spill Resources
• What happens when crude oil spills into the sea? (Part A)
• More on crude oil and a clean-up experiment/simulation (Part B)
• How do we clean up oil spills?

Research Sites:

• NOAA: Office of Response and Restoration
• Oil Spill Commission Action (OSCA): Links to organizations
• IPIECA.Org
• International Maritime Organization: Oil Spill Organizations and Resource Providers
• Organizations against offshore drilling
• International Bird Rescue

Articles:

• Gulf oil spill: Still poisoning dolphins to crickets
• The Oily Gulf
• Smithsonian Institute Ocean Portal: Gulf Oil Spill
• Science Daily: Recent Oil Spill Articles