Newswise — BOSTON—Journalists preparing stories for the April 20 anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout should find a wealth of free high quality resources at www.oceanoil.org, an online resource provided by Ocean-Oil, the Online Clearinghouse for Education and Networking Oil Interdisciplinary Learning.
Ocean-Oil.org is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed electronic education resource about the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The Ocean-Oil website is seamlessly integrated into the Encyclopedia of Earth (www.eoearth.org), which is a free, peer-reviewed, searchable collection of content, written by expert scholars and educators, about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. OCEAN-OIL resources available in the Encyclopedia of Earth (www.eoearth/oceanoil.org) include the following:
• National Commission Reports on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill- all of the 30 official reports and many background papers, • Articles (100+) hyper-linked, encyclopedia style, • Glossary (400+) related to oil spill causes, impacts, clean-up, and prevention,• Acronyms (LPG, PPM, ROV, VOC) (75+) to help decode the language of oil spill science,• External links (100+) to government sites, image galleries, news sources, industry, environmental groups, education, and journal articles,• Photo galleries: Images by renowned photojournalist Gary Braasch and others,• Deepwater Horizon by the Numbers: Publication-quality graphs,• Videos (100+), and• Databases - Statistics, technical diagrams, maps, and other data.
The Encyclopedia of Earth is maintained by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). Encyclopedia of Earth Editor-in-Chief Cutler Cleveland of Boston University is an expert in energy and society and leads the development of the new online resource as a partnership among NCSE and its Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), Louisiana State University and Boston University. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
About Boston University—Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research. With more than 30,000 students, it is the fourth largest independent university in the United States. BU contains 17 colleges and schools along with a number of multi-disciplinary centers and institutes which are central to the school's research and teaching mission.
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