Research Guides: Gulf Oil Spill, April 2010: Home

FSU Involvement

The Oil Spill Academic Task Force is coordinated by FSU and composed of all the State Universities and four private universities. As part of its responsibilities, this task force is serving as a clearinghouse of information, which is displayed on this website.

Deep-C Consortium "The Deep-C Consortium proposes a long-term, interdisciplinary study of deep-sea-to-coast connectivity in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico." Other members of this consortium in addition to FSU are the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory at the Stennis Space Center, Norwegian Meterological Institute, Science Appllication International Corporation, the University of Miami, the University of South Florida, the University of West Florida, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Research at FSU Hosted by the FSU Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies.

Library Databases

Web of Science*
Web of Science includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Links to some full text. Previously know as Web of Knowledge.

A Clarivate Analytics database.

GeoRef
GreenFile
"EBSCO proudly offers GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. "

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Global connects business researchers with more of the scholarly information that they need. ABI/INFORM Global contains the full text of thousands of journals, including essential scholarly journals and the most important trade journals. Researchers increasingly need more than just scholarly journals to conduct their research thoroughly and effectively. This is why we have made it easy for them to access thousands of dissertations, working papers, reports, news sources, and much more.

Details: Over 2,890+/1,920+ in full text academic and industry-oriented business journals are covered, with full-text access to selected newspapers from 1971.
Format: abstract and index, full text, full image, text+graphics
Coverage: 1923-present

Homeland Security Digital Library
This collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations. Not everything available off campus.
Lexis Nexis Congressional
Searching for "oil spill" will yield very recent full-text Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, not available online. Four of the reports were published since the crisis began and the report entitled, "Oil Spills, CRS Experts" lists contact information for CRS experts on policy issues relating to oil spills. This database will also retrieve related hearings and other congressional materials, some that are full-text.
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (Full archive)

Journal Article Sources

Deepwater Horizon Response

Deepwater Horizon Response & Restoration, on the U.S. Department of the Interior site, which is one of the partners of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command which helps manage this incident, contains information on the response and restoration. Some of the other partners in the Unified Command are BP, Transocean, NOAA, EPA, U.S. Department of the Interior, Mineral Management Service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Defense, National Park Service, United States Coast Guard, and the U.S. Department of State.

Websites

Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team Releases Final Report
Galeta Oil Spill Project, April 27, 1986
Information and data from the Oil Spill in Bahia Las Minas, Panama, on the Caribbean of April 27, 1986, presented by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Updates
Site contains some useful reports and other information.
American Petroleum Institute.
Oil & Gas (OpenSecrets.org)
Amount of money and contributed and influence this industry has had in national politics.
Oil Spills: MedlinePlus
GeoPlatform - Gulf Response
"Responding to the unprecedented need for timely information about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center, in partnership with NOAA, created GeoPlatform and this Gulf Response application."

Resources at Other Libraries

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Incident 2010 Bibliography - Paula Webb, Reference and Electronic Resources Government Documents Librarian, University of South Alabama

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - Texas A&M University

Gulf Oil Spill Information Center - USF Libraries

Biological effects of oil pollution - a comprehensive bibliography with abstracts (1978) - U.S. Coast Guard Office of Research and Development

Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development: A Current Awareness Bibliography (1994) - web-based version here

LUMCON Dispersants Bibliography

Resources on oil spills, response, and restoration: A selected bibliography (2010) - from NOAA

Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill - National Defense University Library