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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Restoration (DWH)

NOAA Institutional Repository

The NOAA Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Program is a NOAA-wide effort focused on restoring injuries to natural resources and services from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico). As the lead science agency for coastal oil spills, NOAA was on the scene from the earliest moment of the DWH oil spill crisis. In the six years following, NOAA assessed the damages, quantified the injury, and determined the types and cost of restoration needed. This work resulted in the 2016 Deepwater Horizon Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PDARP), which detailed the natural resource injuries from the oil spill and selected a comprehensive, integrated ecosystem approach to best restore those resources at an ecosystem level. In addition to serving as a member of the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustee Council implementing restoration work guided by the PDARP, NOAA also supports the Department of Commerce’s role as a member of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which manages the DWH restoration efforts conducted under the RESTORE Act. To support the extensive restoration efforts, NOAA has been working alongside our state, federal, academic, non-profit partners, and the public to implement the best approaches to restoring the Gulf of America resources and habitats. NOAA is particularly focused on identifying and conducting work to advance science needs to either fill data gaps needed to better target restoration or to advance our ability to monitor and evaluate restoration outcomes for NOAA trust resources, including assessing deep benthic and mesophotic communities on the seafloor and monitoring the effects of restoration activities on injured marine mammals, sea turtles, and Gulf fish and invertebrate species and their coastal and marine habitats.

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  • Community response of deepsea softsediment metazoan meiofauna to the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill
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  • BP Deepwater Horizon oil  budget what happened to the oil
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  • Predicting the effects of low salinity associated with the MBSD project on resident common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in Barataria Bay LA
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  • Corresponding morphological and molecular indicators of crude oil toxicity to the developing hearts of mahi mahi
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  • Review of subsurface dispersed oil and oxygen levels associated with the Deepwater Horizon MC252 spill of national significance
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  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill  salt marsh oiling conditions treatment testing and treatment history in northern Barataria Bay Louisiana interim report October 2011
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  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill  assessment of potential impacts on the deep softbottom benthos  interim data summary report
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  • Assessing the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill  the National Status and Trends Program response  a summary report of coastal contamination
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  • Interpreting NOAAs trajectory prediction maps for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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  • Deepwater Horizon Oil characteristics and concerns
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  • Pinniped and cetacean oil spill response guidelines
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  • Report of the NOAASEAMAP Deepwater Horizon Workshop  science needs and approaches for improved stock assessment ecosystem management and marine spatial planning
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  • Bibliography of marine turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
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  • Deepwater Exploration Workshop overview of NOAAs Gulf of Mexico Explorations 20012009 Office of Ocean Exploration and Research July 23 2010 Silver Spring MD
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  • Economics of the Federal Gulf shrimp fishery 2012
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  • Remote biopsy field sampling procedures for cetaceans used during the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the MSC252 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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  • Frequently asked questions about marine mammal rescue and intervention plans in response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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  • BPDeepwater Horizon Oil Spill federal fishery closure frequently asked questions October 2010
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  • Cruise report for deepwater sediment sampling  Cruise MV IRISH  Leg 1 29 May to 10 June 2014 to assess potential benthic impacts from the Deepwater Horizon DWH Oil Spill
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  • Genetic assignment to stock of stranded common bottlenose dolphins in south eastern Louisiana after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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