Advancing a Societal Impact Assessment Framework for Oil and Gas Operations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Description: The project team plans to develop a framework that coastal decision makers can use to measure and track the socio-economic impacts of offshore oil and gas operations in the context of environmental change and extreme weather. After reviewing relevant publications, conducting interviews and surveys, and holding focus groups with affected communities, the project team will create a formal societal impact assessment protocol that Gulf of Mexico communities can access online.

Building Coastal Community Subject Matter Expert Capacity through an Innovative Citizen Science Program to Collect Quantitative Beach Dynamic and Tar Ball Data for Oil Spill Planning and Response in Coastal Regions with Offshore Oil and Gas Operations

Description: The project team intends to pair community groups and volunteers with experienced scientists so the community members can learn how to collect shoreline data. This data can be used to inform oil spill planning and response. In addition to developing citizen scientists who can help address a typical gap in oil spill data, the project team intends to produce a program template that other coastal communities could use to develop similar efforts.

Can Deliberative Discussions Lay a Foundation for Integrated Decision-Making Networks Under Pressure from Changes in Population, Climate and Energy Needs?

Description: The project team will use an established approach in a new way to educate and engage coastal residents and community leaders. The team’s goal is to empower these stakeholders to prioritize coastal management issues and become more active in local natural resource management decisions. Through surveys, educational activities, and small-group discussions, project team members plan to identify insights about coastal management priorities and decision-making that they can share with local, state, and regional leaders, particularly those in areas with offshore oil and gas activity.

Enhancing Community Resilience and Optimizing Oil Spill Response through the Participatory Design of a Decision Support System

Description: The project team plans to develop an open-source decision support system that helps responders minimize an oil spill’s environmental, economic, and social impacts by optimizing the deployment of response crews and equipment. By incorporating information from relevant stakeholders and community leaders and mathematically modeling different oil spill scenarios, this system is intended to help coastal communities proactively plan effective responses to deep and ultra-deep water oil spills.

Multidisciplinary Knowledge Integration to Support Louisiana Coastal Indigenous Communities' Response to Natural and Technological Disasters and Adaptation to Climate Change

Description: The project team plans to collaborate with two United Houma Nation communities to document how environmental stressors affect the livelihoods of these communities and shape the mitigation strategies they use to protect their coastal lands. Team members will record traditional ecological knowledge, local adaption plans, current mitigation efforts, and the tribe’s adaptive capacities. They intend to produce a resource that can be used by the United Houma Nation and other indigenous communities facing similar challenges. This work may encourage other mitigation and adaption planning efforts and increase communication between communities and policymakers.

Simulated oil spills in coastal Florida and Texas, Gulf of Mexico, Blowout and Spill Occurrence Model (BLOSOM), from 2015-06-01 to 2015-07-11 and from 2017-06-01 to 2017-07-31

OSCOM Python Code

User Interface

Repeated Sampling Code

Optimizing Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts: A Tactical Approach and Evaluation Framework

A Repeated Sampling Method for Oil Spill Impact Uncertainty and Interpolation

Protecting Sensitive Coastal Areas with Exclusion Booms during Oil Spill Events

Oil Spill Modeling: Risk, Spatial Vulnerability and Impact Assessment.

Dauphin Island Data Portal

Beach Profile and Tar Ball Monitoring for Oil Spill Response Planning Volunteer Manual 2018-2019

Building Coastal Community Capacity through Innovative Citizen Science Training for Oil Spill Planning and Response

Beach Profile Volunteer Checklist

Dauphin Island Elevation Profile and Tarball Data Sheet

Dauphin Island Shoreline Monitoring Citizen Science Program

Job Survey Analysis (JSA) - Survey Safety Sheet

Florida Volunteer Manual

Systematic Review of Recent Social Indicator Efforts in US Coastal and Ocean Ecosystems (2000–2016)