Deep Horizon Oil Spill Project

The Deep Horizon Oil spill prevents a significant risk to all coastal and biological resources in the Gulf of Mexico. This first map shows the vunerabile coastal areas of St. Joseph's Point, Florida. This spot is a state managed park and natural tourist area. The map shows the coastal types overlaid onto the aerial image of the point to show the large amount of coastline at risk. 61000 feet or 11.5 miles are at risk with only a small amount of the island surrounded by riprap or man-made structures.

This second map shows the boom operations, spots of interest of the point; as well as, the habitat ranges (with in the study area) of this area's terrestrial and aquatic life. The boom projects are still in an early phase with more planned to offset damage to habitat and sensitive coastal areas.

This next map shows the coastal and biological areas overlaid to the tif raster. I couldn't get this picture to smooth out so i used the aerial and county boundries for the other maps. I wanted to show this because it was in the directions but i do no feel it does a good job of showing the biological impacts due to the interference.

This last map shows the biological types at risk and the coastal risk areas. This area has a large amount of aquatic invertebrates that could be decimated by the oil spill. These invertebrates play a large role in the local fisheries and could have long term economic reprecussions. The reptiles, and terrestiral mammals are also at risk due to they're dietary activities leading them to oil exposure.

This project proved quite difficult for me to beat together. More often than not it gave better than it got. I couldn't get the tif file to show for the longest. The projection issues were horrible and I haven't slept more than 4 hours in 2 days due to work/baby/class so please forgive the rambling.