Way back last autumn I had a nagging thought: once oil impacted areas of the Gulf were re-opened to fishing in the wake of the BP / Deepwater Horizon spill, would shrimp trawlers repeatedly churn up oil that had settled on the seafloor? As the federal government proceeds with a long and complicated legal and […]
Back in January, SkyTruth attended the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment held in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference this year was Our Changing Oceans, and you can see our presentation here. While we were there, we participated in one of the breakout sessions entitled Ecosystem-Based Marine Spatial Planning in U.S. […]
If you’re in the Washington, DC area on Tuesday, Feb. 15 why not stop by the campus of American University to hear John Amos give an illustrated talk about using satellite images to protect our environment? John will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. at the Wechsler Theater on the 3rd floor of the Mary Graydon […]
File this under better late than never. On November 19th and 20th, we had the pleasure of participating in the People’s Oil & Gas Summit 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA which was hosted by our friends at Earthworks. Our portion of the event came on Saturday morning in the workshop entitled: Web-based tools for information sharing […]
As 2010 draws to a close, we breath a sigh of relief. The BP / Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico tested our ability to collect, analyze, and publish images and information day in and day out for almost four months, and attracted major media attention. Following up to ensure that the important […]