Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Online Clearinghouse for Education & Networking

Online Clearinghouse for Education & Networking:Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL)

OCEAN-OIL already contains:

1,000+ hyper-linked encyclopedia style articles related to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, including offshore oil and gas, the ecological effects of oil spills, details of the event, oil spill response, and lessons from the disaster, and related topics

400+ glossary of important terms related to oil spill causes, impacts, clean-up, and prevention

75+ acronyms (LPG, PPM, ROV, VOC) to help decode the language of oil spill science

80+ external resource links to federal government sites, image galleries, news sources, industry, environmental groups, education, and journal articles

Deepwater Horizon photo gallery: Images by renowned photojournalist Gary Braasch

Deepwater Horizon by the Numbers: Publication quality graphs

Reports of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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 about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society, written by expert scholars and educators. NCSE coordinates the Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia's Editor-in-Chief Cutler Cleveland of Boston University, who is an expert in energy and society, leads the development of the new online resource.

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