Lessons Learned from the Gulf Oil Spill  

Links to all the reading lists for the Fairbanks 2011 Lecture Series, including this one.

Auroras at Solar Minimum

Healthy Alaska: What's In Our Fish?

Thawing Permafrost: What Does it Mean for the Arctic?

Lessons Learned From the Gulf Oil Spill

Survivor Kasatochi: Insects After the Volcanic Eruption

Whale Tales: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Humpback Whales in Alaska Waters

2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

BP Gulf of Mexico response

Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster  WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Reuters (look in the righthand column)

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010) Chicago Tribune  

NOAA Deepwater Horizon archive

Restore the Gulf

Final Report.  National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling   2011. 

America’s Gulf Coast: a long term recovery plan after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Ray Mabus, New Orleans: Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center, 2010. 

Assessing the effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on human health: workshop summary, Margaret A. McCoy and Judith A. Salerno,. Washington DC: National Academies Press, 2010.

Blowout in the Gulf: The BP oil spill disaster and the future of energy in America, William R. Freudenburg and Robert Gramling, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.

Anastas, Paul T., et al. (2010). Designing science in a crisis: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Environmental Science and Technology, 44 (24), 9250-9251.

Davies, S. (2010). Deep oil dilemma: explosion and sinking of Deepwater Horizon. Engineering and Technology, 5 (8), 44-49.

Kerr, R.A. et al. (2010). Gulf oil disaster: five questions on the spill.  Science 328 (5891),  962-963.

Margolis, Mac. (2011)  Top 100 stories of 2010 #1: Worst oil spill of all time and a future full of oil. Discover 32(1), 15-18.

Powell, Corey S. (2011)  Top 100 stories of 2010 #25: Steven Chu finally brings much needed science into energy policy.  Discover 32(1), 42-43.

Rotkin-Ellman, Miriam, Kathleen M. Navarro, and Gina M. Solomon. (2010). Gulf oil spill air quality monitoring: lessons learned to improve emergency response. Environmental Science and Technology, 44 (22), 8365-8366.

Solomon, Gina M. and Sarah Janssen. (2010). Health effects of the Gulf oil spill. Journal of the American Medical Association, 304 (10), 1118-1119.

Stokstad, Erik. (2010). Diving into the oil spill. Science, 330 (6011), 1608.

Witze, Alexandra. (2011) White House Science Adviser discusses next two years.  Science News 179 (2) 32.