BP’s Reputation Repair Strategies during the Gulf Oil Spill

The Gulf oil spill.

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh (B.D.G.); and the Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (H.J.O.); and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (M.Y.L.) — both in New Orleans. Address repr...

Cleaning up the Arabian Gulf: Aftermath of an oil spill

Mental health effects of the gulf oil spill.

From multiple perspectives, the current mental health concerns in the Gulf communities began significantly earl ier than the Deepwater Horizon oil spi l l , when Hurricane Katrina hit much of the area now affected by the oil blowout. The major impact of Hurricane Katrina on mental health reflected the enormity of the devastation, including destruction of the infrastructure resulting in a dramat...

Measurable Dynamics Analysis of Transport in the Gulf of Mexico during the Oil Spill

On April 20, 2010, an oil well cap explosion below the Deepwater Horizon, an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started the worst human-caused submarine oil spill ever. Though an historic tragedy for the marine ecosystem, the unprecedented monitoring of the spill in real time by satellites and increased modeling of the natural oceanic flows has provided a wealth of data, allowing analysis...

Toxicity and mutagenicity of Gulf of Mexico waters during and after the deepwater horizon oil spill.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is unparalleled among environmental hydrocarbon releases, because of the tremendous volume of oil, the additional contamination by dispersant, and the oceanic depth at which this release occurred. Here, we present data on general toxicity and mutagenicity of upper water column waters and, to a lesser degree, sediment porewater of the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico (...