The Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill began on 20 April 2010 and resulted in the largest oil spill in the history of the U.S., contaminating approximately 800 kilometers of coastline and nearshore waters along the northern Gulf of Mexico, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida panhandle.  The oil spill was an additional stressor [...]

In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) was performed on the St. Joseph Bay bottlenose dolphin community. The overall goals of the NRDA process, which is part of NOAA’s Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP), are to: 1) Identify the extent of resources that were damaged 2) [...]