About the Oil in the Gulf of Mexico

*THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO ASSISTING IN THE RESCUE & RECOVERY OF WILDLIFE & ADDRESSING OTHER NEEDS IN THE EFFECTED AREA*

Highlighting Emontional Health & Trauma in the Gulf Coast Region:

• Find Mental Health Support by Location at SAMHSA Health Information Network
• Washington Post video: Oil spill fallout causes emotional, psychological stress

Worker Health and Safety During the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Cleanup in Alaska in 1989

Thursday, June 24th, 2010  Trajectory Update

Resources:
Audubon Oil Spill Efforts
NOAA Emergency Response
Deepwater Horizon Response
NOAA GeoPlatform.gov Gulf Response
ERMA Interactive Map of Environmental Response

Click here to view additional trajectory maps.

7/29 Trajectory with oil landfall areas in red.

***In a catastrophic event, for wildlife and sustaining resources in danger, in the immediate moment, in-the-field volunteers can respond by  assisting to ensure the survival of affected species:

1. Survive: Stay Safe, Treat Wounds.  Press this button to find hospitals and First Aid locations within the affected area.

2. Sustain: Find Water, Food, and Shelter.  Water is most important.  Press this button to find Shelters and aid locations.

3. Reunite:  Find Loved Ones.  Press this button to search the  people finder tool and register yourself on the “safe” lists.

This website contains important information to help those impacted by a catastrophic event find the aid they need.  A team of volunteers around the world are constantly updating this information so that you know where to go and whom to call when you begin the road to recovery.

Along the top are pages to help you find hospitals, and treat wounds, and see where shelter and other urgent aid material may be found.  The right side of this screen shows additional links for those who would like more detailed information about areas most heavily impacted.

A catastrophic disaster is much different than other types of disasters.  In any average disaster, people and property are severely impacted but recovery is relatively fast. Aid agencies are onsite or in contact with impacted persons within a few days.  In a catastrophic disaster, hundreds of thousands or millions of people are impacted. The geography impacted may be hundreds of miles in diameter.  In such a case, it may be weeks until aid reaches those affected.

The information you see here is easy to find, but the research behind knowing what to tell the public at this time of need and how to display it in any easy to read manner is the result of 11 years of analyzing, responding to, and learning from how the public reacts in times of widespread need in the United States (9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ike).

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