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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in 2010 roughly 50 miles off the Louisiana coastline. Nearly 172 million gallons of oil entered the Gulf of Mexico, impacting animals, humans, and the environment. In this webinar, experts will provide insights into Deepwater Horizon’s impacts to Louisiana – specifically on human communities, wetland plants and fish – as well paths forward into the future.

For more information or to register, visit https://gulfseagrant.org/oilspilloutreach/presentations/focus-on-louisiana-oil-spills/

The National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) and NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management will host a webinar on economic resources for working waterfront communities available via the Digital Coast. The webinar will highlight publicly-available economic data sets, learning opportunities (including economic trainings and e-learning modules), and case studies that demonstrate how these resources can inform local decision-making. Recently released marine national economy statistics, which offer the most inclusive national estimates for all ocean, coastal and Great Lakes economic activity by major industry, will also be discussed.

Speakers and panelists

• Rita Colwell, Chair of the GoMRI Research Board
• Laura Bowie, Executive Director, Gulf of Mexico Alliance
• Chuck Wilson, GoMRI Chief Scientific Officer
• Richard Shaw, GoMRI Research Board member from the state of Louisiana, Louisiana State University
• Debi Benoit, GoMRI Research Board member from the state of Louisiana, Nicholls State University
• Stephen Sempier, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
• Emily Maung-Douglass, Louisiana Sea Grant
• Vijay John, Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems (C-MEDS), Tulane University
• Melissa Finucane, Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC), RAND Corporation
• Nancy Rabalais, Coastal Waters Consortium (CWC), Louisiana State University
• Natalia Sidorovskaia, Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center-Gulf Ecological Monitoring & Modeling (LADC-GEMM), University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Additionally featuring:
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
  • Clean Gulf Associates