Offshore

Christian Thomas Works to Protect his Home State of West Virginia

December 3, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Overfishing and Illegal fishing, Protected Area Monitoring, Team /by Amy Mathews

Christian had a choice: The Peace Corps or SkyTruth. He chose SkyTruth.

“It was no contest,” Christian Thomas told me when I asked him about choosing between the Peace Corps and SkyTruth. Born and raised near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Christian first met SkyTruth President John Amos at the Shepherdstown Farmer’s Market when he was a student at West Virginia University. When John learned that Christian was studying geography and environmental geoscience, he encouraged Christian to send his resume to SkyTruth.

Bilge Dumping Caught in Indonesia – Again!

October 30, 2019/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Internship, Oceans, Offshore /by Tatianna Evanisko

SkyTruth identified the bulk carrier Lumoso Aman as the likely polluter via AIS and satellite imagery.

On October 10, 2019, SkyTruth discovered yet another likely bilge dumping incident in Southeast Asian waters. We identified the potential culprit as the Lumoso Aman, a bulk cargo carrier, through AIS (Automatic Identification System) broadcasts.

What About the Oceans? Mapping Offshore Infrastructure

October 10, 2019/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Gulf of Mexico, Internship, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by Christian Thomas

Mapping stationary structures in the ocean helps us track fishing vessels and monitor pollution more effectively.

We’re all accustomed to seeing maps of the terrestrial spaces we occupy, our oceans are much more mysterious places.

What can we learn from the longest oil spill in US history?

March 15, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill /by John Amos

[This is a guest post about the ongoing Taylor Energy oil spill from Dr. Ian MacDonald, oceanographer at Florida State University. Ian helped SkyTruth make independent estimates of the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 that dwarfed the estimates told to the public by BP.] As recently as two days ago — […]

Taylor Energy Oil Spill: This Is How Change Happens

December 11, 2018/in Biodiversity, Climate, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Impact stories, Oceans, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Watchdog /by John Amos

In October 2018, The Washington Post ran a story describing the ongoing, 14-year-long leak of crude oil from hurricane-damaged wells at the former location of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by a company called Taylor Energy. The article stated that — based on the latest scientific estimates of the leak rate […]

Archive for category: Offshore

Christian had a choice: The Peace Corps or SkyTruth. He chose SkyTruth.

SkyTruth identified the bulk carrier Lumoso Aman as the likely polluter via AIS and satellite imagery.

Mapping stationary structures in the ocean helps us track fishing vessels and monitor pollution more effectively.