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Post-Irene Turbidity off Long Island, Cape Cod – Major Runoff Expected
/in Incidents /by John AmosThis MODIS/Terra satellite image taken about two hours ago shows beautiful patterns of post-Irene turbidity (mostly suspended sand) in the waters off Long Island and Cape Cod: But the brown plume in Raritan Bay just above the right corner of our logo shows sediment coming from runoff into the Raritan River. The Hudson River north […]
Coastal Turbidity from Hurricane Irene
/in Incidents /by John AmosThe intense wind and wave action kicked up by Hurricane Irene left its mark along the eastern seaboard. Sand and sediment eroded from the beaches and stirred up from the seafloor created a broad belt of turbid ocean water that appears a gorgeous shade of turquoise in this MODIS / Terra satellite image shot yesterday […]
Marsh Fire Near New Orleans – Smoke Plume Over City
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents /by John AmosA quick update – yesterday’s MODIS satellite image shows the plume of smoke from a burning marsh blowing to the south-southwest, affecting a big chunk of the city of New Orleans and parts of the Jefferson, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes: Thick smoke was drifting yesterday over the communities of Chalmette, Braithwaite, Marrero, Galliano, Chauvin, Dulan […]
Marsh Fire Near New Orleans
/2 Comments/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents /by John AmosSerendipity: in conducting our regular daily monitoring of satellite imagery for oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, we noticed a huge plume of smoke coming from the east side of the city of New Orleans on this NASA/MODIS satellite image taken early Saturday afternoon: We tweeted about this at 7:14pm eastern, and in the […]
Earthquakes, Earthquakes! And Drilling?
/in Incidents, Oil & Gas /by John AmosWe had some action here in the mid-Atlantic yesterday that would make the folks in California yawn, but is pretty unusual around these parts – a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia, that was felt far and wide. There have even been a couple of small aftershocks. Paul and Teri report that the shaking was […]
Everything Old is New Again
/in Biodiversity, BP, Climate, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Paul WoodsWe’ve been following the recent media reports about oil leaking at the Deepwater Horizon site, and we have received a lot of inquiries about whether we could corroborate these reports. Well John has been out of the office dealing with some family medical issues (don’t worry – he’s fine and he’ll be back soon), so […]