BP Oil Spill Response Efforts

Images of environmental responders assessing and cleaning beach areas affected by an oil spill. Workers collect contaminated sand and discuss sampling locations under a bright sky.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Grand Isle (BP Oil Spill) - Patrick Warnick and Barry Crawford carefully decant sample into bottles for transport to testing facility. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists collected environmental data and samples in coastal areas affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Samples of water, sediments, benthic invertebrates, and microorganisms were collected by the USGS at beach, barrier island, and wetland environments of the Gulf of Mexico coastal states before and after petroleum-associated product arrived on shore. Orange flagging delineates the Exclusion Zone from which samples of sediment for chemical and biological analyses will be collected at Henderson Beach State Park in Florida. In the background, USGS scientists are completing a survey of Gulf of Mexico physical and chemical properties, using multiparameter instrumentation..

221007-N-ZG822-1209 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Oct. 7, 2022) Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), pick up trash during a community relations event at Stavros Beach during a scheduled port visit Oct. 7, 2022. The event allowed volunteers to give back to the community while contributing to local authorities continued efforts to preserve the scenic environment. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

Man demonstrating water sampling in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

On 6/25/10, Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Wildlife Biologist Jackie Isaacs explained the importance of habitat for foraging shorebirds and pointed out proactive measures taken by refuge staff soon after the spill began. Across Ivan Cut, refuge staf. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS). Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

221007-N-ZG822-1214 SOUDA BAY, Crete (Oct. 7, 2022) Cmdr. Douglas Grace, left, and Cmdr. Carrie Lang, both assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), pick up trash during a community relations event at Stavros Beach during a scheduled port visit Oct. 7, 2022. The event allowed volunteers to give back to the community while contributing to local authorities continued efforts to preserve the scenic environment. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied, and partner interests.

Flooding Severe Storm - Centerville, Tenn. , May 9, 2010 FEMA Community Relations Specialist Carmen Almeida-Biggart listens to Michael Anglin describe how his double wide trailer was swept off its foundation by flood waters only to be stopped by two trees. The Anglins are living in tents adjacent to their broken home to protect what is left of their belongings from looters. FEMA is responding to severe storms and flooding that damaged and destroyed thousands of homes across Tennessee. David Fine/FEMA. Tennessee Severe Storms, Flooding, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Port St. Joe, FL: University of Florida student Jacob Hill takes his turn digging as classmates Hope Ronco and Seth Farris watch. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers. Location: Florida.

The Puerto Rico Army National Guard 105th Water Purification and Distribution Co. is producing and distributing potable water in the northwest side of the Island after Hurricane María left the Island with a devastated infrastructure, Oct. 17. With water purification and distribution sites in the municipalities of Quebradillas and Aguadilla, the PRNG has distributed more than 6 thousand gallons of potable water to residents of these two municipalities and more than 40 thousand gallons in the towns of Aguadilla, Aguada, Moca and Rincón during the last several days. The PRNG makes this possible thanks to its Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units (ROWPU) which produce potable water from a variety of water sources and relieves the need of water left by Hurricane Maria.

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-165. Hurricane Katrina

Mike Rowe, the popular host of the Discovery Channel series "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe," brings his show to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in April 2010. The regular work crew for the invasive. Subjects: Connecting people with nature; Work of the Service; Boats; Invasive species. Location: Florida. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ARTHUR R. MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Idaho waterfront views, from Secretary Dirk Kempthorne visit

Port St. Joe, FL: University of Florida grad student Natalie Williams uncovers turtle eggs. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles; Volunteers; Connecting people with nature. Location: Florida.

Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pohnpei Island, of the Federated States of Micronesia

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- University of Florida geologist, Pete Adams, discusses a six-month effort to restore the sand dunes along a 1.2 mile stretch of shoreline near Launch Pads 39A and B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Experts from University of Florida are working with NASA scientists to better understand beach erosion.Constant pounding from tropical storms, such as Hurricane Sandy in October of 2012, other weather systems and higher than usual tides, destroyed sand dunes protecting infrastructure at the spaceport.

Pick up trash on the beaches of the island Cousin

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-116. Hurricane Katrina

July 12, 2010 Gulf Shores, AL - Southeast Regional Director Cindy Dohner discusses the sea turtle nest transfer program. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

AmeriCorps Disaster Response Team member Ashtyn Moss, with community volunteers Erica Coranado and Chloe Borja clearing debris at a home site in As Matuis. Twenty AmeriCorps Disaster Response Team members (A-DRT) from Texas Conservation Corps, Conservation Corps of MN & IA and Washington Conservation Corps, supported by the Disaster Services Unit at the Corporation for National and Community Service, were mission assigned by FEMA and have been deployed to Saipan to assist in building capacity for long term recovery through partnerships with the local VOAD, Long Term Recovery Groups and the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts (CARE). These activities include the coordination of volunteers and donated resources, coordination of homeowner assessments and intakes, and classroom field trainings on being a Volunteer Leader.. <p>Saipan, CNMI, October 10, 2015 - AmeriCorps Disaster Response Team member Ashtyn Moss, with community volunteers Erica Coranado and Chloe Borja clearing debri

July 12, 2010 - Gulf Shores, AL: Jeff Corwin speaks with USFWS Southeast Regional Director Cindy Dohner during a nest excavation. Photo by Barbara Maxfield, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama.

Namibia, Damaraland, Brandberg. A lesson in desert survival on a desert medicine training course- how to make and prime a solar still an emergency method for making drinking water in arid environments.

July 15, 2010 Gulfport, MS - Mississippi Team One USFWS Biologist Nate Caswell. Meticulous recordkeeping is a necessity. Photo by Bonnie Strawser. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Surveying. Location: Mississippi. . 1998 - 2011.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

June 28, 2010: USFWS prepares for the sea turtle nest relocation on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

110915-N-YU572-080BARKING SANDS, Hawaii (Sept. 15, 2011) Electricians Mate 2nd Class Jon Moore removes a message from a bottle sent from Kagoshima, Japan more than five years ago. More than 40 Sailors and volunteers teamed up with 16 students and faculty of Ke Kula Ni`ihau O Kekaha School to collect trash along the shore at the Pacific Missile Range Facility. The beach cleanup effort was in observance of International Coastal Cleanup Day sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy.

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-335. Hurricane Katrina

221006-N-AS200-1402 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2D Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Breton National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jack Bohannan discusses boom deployment at the refuge with a Coast Guard officer. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Oil spills; Employees (USFWS); Service patch. Location: Louisiana. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BRETON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California, for touring, discussions with Aquarium officials and staff

President Barack Obama, National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, and Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph look at the effect the BP oil spill has had on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La., May 28, 2010.

Preliminary Damage Assement Team assesses Fire Island. New York Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-205. Hurricane Katrina

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

Volunteers help clean up Surf Beach located on Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., on April 27, 2022. Once a quarter, volunteers gather at a beach on base and clean up litter to protect the environment.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - Beach assessment team from LA DEQ, looking for oiling on beach. Lafourche, LA. , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-118. Hurricane Katrina

Apalachicola, FL July 19, 2010. St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge personnel remove the 5th of about 50 sea turtle nests at St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge. Sand from the nest insulates about 130 eggs in a Styrofoam box. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Relocation; Reptiles; Employees (USFWS). Location: Florida. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ST. VINCENT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

Dolphin Rescue - 26-HK-130-274. Hurricane Katrina

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - BP Oil Spill (Web Photographs) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

100522-N-KD414-7703 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Mike Rowe, the popular host of the Discovery Channel series "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe," brings his show to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in April 2010. Between segments, Mike returned to a g. Subjects: Connecting people with nature; Work of the Service. Location: Florida. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: ARTHUR R. MARSHALL LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

New village building site for the victims of the Tsunami in the village of Bak Jok which was completely destroyed - KO PHRATHONG ISLAND, THAILAND

The Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced their three awardees of the agency's 2010 Recovery Champion Award. The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe have partnered with us and an interagency team to preserve and restore habit. Subjects: Native Americans; Habitat restoration; Fishes; Fisheries management. Location: Nevada. . 1998 - 2011.

July 12, 2010 Gulf Shores, AL - Volunteers from Alabama's "Share the Beach" program assist FWS Biologists in Alabama's first sea turtle nest to transfer to Kennedy Space Center on the Atlantic Coast of Florida. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Employees (USFWS); Reptiles; Relocation. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

8th Military Police Brigade Soldiers load trash bags full of litter and debris during a beach clean-up effort on Mokuleia Army Beach in Waialua, Hawaii Sept. 23, 2022. The beach cleaning event, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii leadership, supported the annual Public Lands Day which saw various Army units on the island pitch in to help keep Hawaiis public-use areas clean.

Tom Spencer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, remote sensing program manager / project engineer, flies a drone over Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Oct. 11, to gather data on storm damage following Hurricane Ians landfall Sept. 28. Spencer is one of more than 280 USACE employees deployed to Florida that are actively supporting FEMA and the states recovery operations.

Tom Spencer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, remote sensing program manager / project engineer, flies a drone over Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Oct. 11, to gather data on storm damage following Hurricane Ians landfall Sept. 28. Spencer is one of more than 280 USACE employees deployed to Florida that are actively supporting FEMA and the states recovery operations.

Madison Cox, 11th Civil Engineer Squadron natural resources program manager, unties baskets of mussels retrieved from the Potomac River during a mussel release event, April 3, 2023, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. JBAB, in partnership with Anacostia Watershed Society, deployed and began monitoring the young freshwater mussels in April 2022; this event signified the mussels graduation and send-off to their permanent homes in the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers off the JBAB shoreline. The mussels were deployed to clean the rivers adjoining JBAB; a single mussel can filter more than five gallons of water per day, removing harmful pollutants and debris while improving the health of the river.

8th Military Police Brigade Soldiers load trash bags full of litter and debris during a beach clean-up effort on Mokuleia Army Beach in Waialua, Hawaii Sept. 23, 2022. The beach cleaning event, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii leadership, supported the annual Public Lands Day which saw various Army units on the island pitch in to help keep Hawaiis public-use areas clean.

8th Military Police Brigade Soldiers load trash bags full of litter and debris during a beach clean-up effort on Mokuleia Army Beach in Waialua, Hawaii Sept. 23, 2022. The beach cleaning event, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii leadership, supported the annual Public Lands Day which saw various Army units on the island pitch in to help keep Hawaiis public-use areas clean.

Man stands on a beach affected by oil spills; Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, United States of America

Mexico, Baja California Sur, La Paz. Sea turtle conservation program.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Volunteers Megan Creegan and Meredith Wilson close off an area for dune protection as part of a berm building effort at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Subjects: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Oil spills. Location: Alabama. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. . 1998 - 2011.

Activist against green tides speaking Brittany France

CR outreach in Collier County.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Global Warming

Preliminary Damage Assement Team assesses Fire Island. New York Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

U.S. Corps of Engineers Coastal Geologists Weston Cross and Civil Engineer Erin Cuddihy review notes and diagrams with Jerry Covert, Chair of the Presque Isle State Park Advisory Committees Science and Research Subcommittee, during a semi-annual beach walk at Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, April 5, 2022. To control shoreline erosion and induce the continued growth of the parks Gull Point - a habitat for endangered species - the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers nourishes Presque Isles beach with new sand each year.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Various Images (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance. GPS coordinates in metadata. , Environmental Protection Agency

Flooding - Fargo, N. D. , April 1, 2009 US Fish and wildlife check in with residents that have been stranded in their homes north of Fargo. Photo: Michael Rieger/FEMA. North Dakota Severe Storms and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

During the countdown for the launch of NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-R, Stephanie Martin of NASA Communications, right, interviews Al Roker, weather forecaster on NBC's "Today Show." GOES-R is the first satellite in a series of next-generation GOES satellites for NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. It will launch to a geostationary orbit over the western hemisphere to provide images of storms and help meteorologists predict severe weather conditionals and develop long-range forecasts.

Public at a demonstration against the green tides Brittany

Biloxi, Miss., Oct. 2, 2012 FEMA Corps members Nate Hallgren and Samantha Labaschin begin work with Public Assistance Project Specialist Ed Garrison learning to create project worksheets to restore public facilities damaged during Hurricane Isaac. FEMA and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency are working together to help survivors clean up and recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac. David Fine/FEMA. Mississippi Hurricane Isaac. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

100522-N-KD414-7701 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2C Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Man demonstrating water sampling in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

DR 4724,September 2,2023, Lahaina, Maui, HI: Josh Green, Gov of Hawaii and Rep Russ Fulcher exchange contact information during a tour the fire ravaged area of Lahaina, Maui, HI. Patsy Lynch/FEMA,

Activist against green tides speaking Brittany France

Vilonia, AR, May 21, 2014 - Merissa Morgan, a Team Rubicon team lead, supervises volunteers as they remove debris from a home and property in Parkwood Meadows near Naylor Road after the home was destroyed by a tornado on April 27. FEMA supports Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) as they help survivors recover from natural disasters. Arkansas Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

WHITE BEACH, Japan (April 22, 2022) Commander, Fleet Activities Okinawa Sailors conducted a beach cleanup at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan April 22, 2022. The cleanup was held to celebrate Earth Day. CFAO maintains and operates facilities to support the U.S. Navys naval and aviation assets in the Indo-Pacific region.

"Mayflower, AR, May 22, 2014 ; Dowds (left) and Lesa (right), Team Rubicon volunteers, smile for the camera as they help to remove debris from a home and property on Plantation Drive after the home was destroyed by a tornado on April 27. FEMA supports Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) as they help survivors recover from natural disasters. Arkansas Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Environmental education about sea turtles (Chelonia mydas y Dermochelys coriacea). Gran-Popo, Benin. ONG Tropicale Nature, preservation de la biodiversite et des ressources naturelles du Benin, entre autres tortues marines et mammiferes marins. Base a Cotonou et Gran-Popo. Createur et president, Josea S. Dossou-Bodjrenou.

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