Late last week a group of researchers led by Dr. Yanzhu Dong — including SkyTruth’s Science Advisor, Dr. Ian MacDonald — published a major new study in the prestigious journal Science with a disturbing conclusion: commercial shipping is a major source of chronic, day-to-day oil pollution in our ocean, and pollution from shipping is rapidly getting worse.
https://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Cerulean-12-month-Results-Map_FEAT2.jpg256317John Amoshttps://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SkyTruth-Header-Logo-C.pngJohn Amos2022-06-21 09:30:182022-07-20 09:37:25Oil Pollution from Commercial Shipping is a Big Problem, and Getting Bigger
My name is Breanna Xiong! I like to describe myself as a somewhat typical first-generation American college graduate. I’m Hmong-American, born to war-refugee-rice-farming parents, and was raised in California’s Central Valley.
Intern Jonathan Kvilhaug’s monitoring of mountaintop removal mining included discovering data gaps on the ground.
When I joined SkyTruth in January 2022, my spring internship coincided with my last semester of primarily virtual graduate school. During my program, I was interested in pursuing internship experiences that would supplement my study of Geography while also providing an opportunity to advance an organization’s mission. While I was already familiar with SkyTruth’s impressive portfolio of work, I later came to be most impressed by SkyTruth’s sense of community and support for one another.
https://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022_kvilhaug_blog_post_feat.jpg423640Jonathan Kvilhaughttps://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SkyTruth-Header-Logo-C.pngJonathan Kvilhaug2022-06-06 14:23:142024-01-17 16:56:42Written in Stone
SkyTruth is pleased to announce that Jason Schatz is our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Jason previously led the Descartes Labs Sustainability Science team, which monitors the world’s forests using remote sensing data. He also spent six years as a community organizer in Dubuque, Iowa, where he led a successful campaign to commit the city […]
https://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/LauraJin_CaitlinJason_Nambe-27.jpg16001067Mitchelle De Leonhttps://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SkyTruth-Header-Logo-C.pngMitchelle De Leon2022-05-23 18:09:352023-03-15 09:22:07SkyTruth Welcomes Jason Schatz as Chief Technology Officer
SkyTruth’s offshore infrastructure dataset can help identify areas at high risk of oil pollution events.
Although anyone can go to Google Maps and find most buildings in the world, we can’t do the same for infrastructure at sea. SkyTruth and our partners at Global Fishing Watch were inspired by this problem and created a dataset that allows us to locate offshore infrastructure. By applying three criteria, intern Breanna Xiong identified structures that have a high, medium, or low likelihood of being related to oil and gas production. This can make monitoring for oil pollution and identifying sources more efficient, and support SkyTruth’s project Cerulean.
https://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1_Infrastructure-1.jpeg423640Breanna Xionghttps://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SkyTruth-Header-Logo-C.pngBreanna Xiong2022-03-31 13:40:022023-03-15 09:24:09That’s not Atlantis, it’s just a bunch of human-made structures at sea
SkyTruth helped investigative journalists report on the extent of the offshore oil pollution problem in Europe.
For the past eight months, SkyTruth has been working with a team of journalists and media outlets associated with Lighthouse Reports investigating the problem of chronic (and often illegal) oil pollution by vessels at sea transiting European waters. These outlets recently released a groundbreaking series of stories. In this blog post we explain how SkyTruth developed the estimates used by these journalists to reveal the extent of oily bilge waste in European waters.
https://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/New-Project-4.png423640Jona Raphaelhttps://skytruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SkyTruth-Header-Logo-C.pngJona Raphael2022-03-23 18:52:052023-03-15 09:44:35Oil pollution in European waters: It’s worse than you think
Oil Pollution from Commercial Shipping is a Big Problem, and Getting Bigger
/in General /by John AmosCerulean is the tool we’re building to stop it
Late last week a group of researchers led by Dr. Yanzhu Dong — including SkyTruth’s Science Advisor, Dr. Ian MacDonald — published a major new study in the prestigious journal Science with a disturbing conclusion: commercial shipping is a major source of chronic, day-to-day oil pollution in our ocean, and pollution from shipping is rapidly getting worse.
The Chaotic Memoir of Breanna, a SkyTruth Intern
/in General /by Breanna XiongNyob Zoo! (Hello!)
My name is Breanna Xiong! I like to describe myself as a somewhat typical first-generation American college graduate. I’m Hmong-American, born to war-refugee-rice-farming parents, and was raised in California’s Central Valley.
Written in Stone
/in Internship, Mining, Mountaintop Mining /by Jonathan KvilhaugIntern Jonathan Kvilhaug’s monitoring of mountaintop removal mining included discovering data gaps on the ground.
When I joined SkyTruth in January 2022, my spring internship coincided with my last semester of primarily virtual graduate school. During my program, I was interested in pursuing internship experiences that would supplement my study of Geography while also providing an opportunity to advance an organization’s mission. While I was already familiar with SkyTruth’s impressive portfolio of work, I later came to be most impressed by SkyTruth’s sense of community and support for one another.
SkyTruth Welcomes Jason Schatz as Chief Technology Officer
/in Team /by Mitchelle De LeonSkyTruth is pleased to announce that Jason Schatz is our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Jason previously led the Descartes Labs Sustainability Science team, which monitors the world’s forests using remote sensing data. He also spent six years as a community organizer in Dubuque, Iowa, where he led a successful campaign to commit the city […]
That’s not Atlantis, it’s just a bunch of human-made structures at sea
/in Bilge Dumping, Flaring, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling /by Breanna XiongSkyTruth’s offshore infrastructure dataset can help identify areas at high risk of oil pollution events.
Although anyone can go to Google Maps and find most buildings in the world, we can’t do the same for infrastructure at sea. SkyTruth and our partners at Global Fishing Watch were inspired by this problem and created a dataset that allows us to locate offshore infrastructure. By applying three criteria, intern Breanna Xiong identified structures that have a high, medium, or low likelihood of being related to oil and gas production. This can make monitoring for oil pollution and identifying sources more efficient, and support SkyTruth’s project Cerulean.
Oil pollution in European waters: It’s worse than you think
/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Cerulean, Climate, Conservation Vision, Oceans, Oil Spill /by Jona RaphaelSkyTruth helped investigative journalists report on the extent of the offshore oil pollution problem in Europe.
For the past eight months, SkyTruth has been working with a team of journalists and media outlets associated with Lighthouse Reports investigating the problem of chronic (and often illegal) oil pollution by vessels at sea transiting European waters. These outlets recently released a groundbreaking series of stories. In this blog post we explain how SkyTruth developed the estimates used by these journalists to reveal the extent of oily bilge waste in European waters.