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NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Gulf of Mexico on April 25, 2010 using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. With the Mississippi Delta on the left, the silvery swirling oil slick from the April 20 explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is highly visible. Some of the fines that may be levied against BP ($1.2 billion) and Transocean ($75 million), which operated Deepwater Horizon, will go toward restoring the barrier islands, wetlands, and oyster reef damaged by the spill.
Photograph courtesy NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team

Oil-Spill Fines May Finance 39 Restoration Projects

05/16/2013by carylsue Leave a comment

ENVIRONMENT Oil-Spill Fines May Finance 39 Restoration Projects Louisiana coastal officials have put together a list of 39 restoration projects that they hope will be partially or fully financed by […]

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Current Event Connection, Geography In the News
Hurricane Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey in October 2012. Here, a wave crashes into a walking path near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn.
Photograph by Henry Zhang

Unfinished FEMA Maps Put Flood Victims In Limbo

04/29/2013by carylsue Leave a comment

UNITED STATES Unfinished FEMA Maps Put Flood Victims In Limbo Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast six months ago, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was there, finding people […]

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Photo by Christina Hutton

Mapping Patagonia

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In January of this year, cartographers and explorers Ross Donihue and Marty Schnure kicked off a cartographic expedition of Patagonia, a mountainous and archipelagic region at the bottom of South […]

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From the Field, Main, Mapping
Sandy Island, part of cartographic history for more than a century, Sandy Island does not actually exist—and probably never did. This Tumblr site provides some of these historic maps of Sandy Island.

Scientist Unravels Mystery of Ghostly Sandy Island

04/15/2013by carylsue Leave a comment

GEOGRAPHY Scientist Unravels Mystery of Ghostly Sandy Island A research ship cruised through the Coral Sea, bearing down on Sandy Island. The digital scientific databases used by the researchers showed […]

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