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:
- 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
