Oil Spill Photo Gallery: Aerial Views of the Oil

Kim,
I am hoping you can help me, I am from Saskatchewan Canada, and am interested in coming down to volunteer to help clean up the coast. I am an Environmental Earth Science student and therefore have some experience and knowledge of petroleum products and environmental management. I cant seem to find a place where I can submit my name to be put on a volunteer list. Do you have any suggestions? I am completely willing to pay for my flights, accommodations, meals, etc.
Thanks in advance,
Hilary Lavoie

Go to MSNBC to see photos of the animals affected. On page 3 of 53 you start the slide show depicting the different types of birds completely covered with oil. How can we volunteer to clean up these animals and relocate them?

This is such a horrendous catastrophy for our natural heritage. BP is to blame, but so is my state of Florida and also Louisianna. Both states are part of a very small handful of states yet to establish Renewable Portfolio Standards(RPS) for our public utilities. No standards are in place at all, while California has mandated 20% or energy needs must be renewable by 2020. Florida is going in the opposite direction, currently natural gas provides 41% of our electricty, by 2018 it will be 50%! Our state politicians are easily bought and dont seem to care about Floridas future! Clean renewable energy is needed badly especially in the state with some of the greatest solar potential in the country!

I just cried when I say Anderson Cooper this evening on the spill and the Pelicans gasping for breath waiting to be carried away to see if they could be cleaned up enough so they could live.

Don't forget about the FISH-Pourpoise.

After this is over...then what?

HORRORS!

http://www.reuters.com/subjects/gulf-oil-spill

Qin Chen, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge:
The ecological catastrophe in the gulf of Mexico can be compared to the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Millions of gallons of oil are already in the Gulf of Mexico, and until now BP engineers failed to stop the leak.
The tornado season which has started recently in the Mexican gulf can geographically coincide with the oil spill. The oil emerging into the tornado can be air diffused. It is still debated whether the oil dispersed as an aerosol can reach explosive quality. That this situation is far from hypothetical was demonstrated by the U.S. "mother of all bombs" and the Russian "dad of all bombs". Based on the same dispersion principle, with 16,000 lbs of explosive aerosol inside, it is equivalent to 88,000 pounds of TNT.
“The amount of the oil dispersed in a form of an aerosol in the tornado epicenter can be enormous” - Qin Chen says. The extreme explosive capacity of the oil aerosol might affect numerous economically important centers in the U.S.

What does the U.S. government do to prevent this explosive situation?

Anderson Cooper has been doing a terrific job of reporting on the Gulf coast disaster. Today on CNN, Anderson showed video of birds that were covered with oil. I hope that these horrific images convey to the American public that we need to make sure that we take plans for the safety of our wildlife. It' s important that we let our representatives know that drilling off the gulf and the coasts should not happen again.The way of life for the animals of the Gulf will never be the same.

ALL THE TIMES WE TRY NOT TO SPILL A FEW DROPS OF FUEL IN THE LAKES AND OCEAN WHILE FUELING BOATS ....AND NOW THIS MESS ..HOW PATHETIC THERE WAS NEVER A SAFTY PLAN FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF A BREAK IN THE MECHANICS....NOW THE WORLD SUFFERS.....

amazing shots, thanks for putting them up.....are you running into any difficulty or meeting any resistance when you are out taking the aerials?

Thank you for the pics there has not been hardly any overhead pictures of recent ???