The oil slick as seen looking south at the east side of Angel Island. SF Chronicle photo by Kurt Rogers.
Oil Spill Maps and Photos:
Oil Spill Response
Fish/Crab Season Update http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/news07/07082.html
Oil Spill Impacts
It is best to search on www.sfgate.com
for the most up-to-date to information on:
- The federal criminal investigation
- Marine bird mortalities
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On November 7, 2007, the container ship M/V Cosco Busan struck the Oakland-Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay spilling an estimated 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel.
Working in partnership with the state-funded Coastal
Ocean Currents Monitoring Program, CeNCOOS assisted
in the spill tracking as well as using HF Radar systems
to provide real-time information on ocean currents
to the response teams. CeNCOOS remains in contact
with the responders, providing information to NOAA
Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA HAZMAT, NOAA
Sanctuaries, and the Oil Spill Prevention and Response
program.
CeNCOOS Contributions
In collaboration with the Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program (COCMP), CeNCOOS is providing surface current and trajectory information using the High Frequency Radar system in SF Bay and along the California coast. Real-time surface current information can be found on the CeNCOOS site and a COCMP site.
CeNCOOS provided environmental information to the oil spill responders within NOAA and OSPR. This included continuously updating surface trajectories, such as those available on the **CeNCOOS Site**. It also included observed and predicted currents used by NOAA's tracking model and individual trajectory snapshots at critical locations (created by Regan Long and COCMP). The sample trajectories on this page coincide with initial news reports of oil on SF piers and Alcatraz followed by oil that showed up on outer coast beaches south of Bolinas and Rodeo Beach.
Information on the spill and response is included in the links to the left.
For more information contact Heather heather@mbari.org. |
