CALENDAR OF
UPCOMING EVENTS &
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Gulf Oil Spill Information
Important Phone Numbers
Oil on Land/Boom Issues
1-866-448-5816
Wildlife: 1-866-557-1401
Claims: 1-800-440-0858
Suggestions for alternate response
or technology: 281-366-5511
Medical Support (National Poison
Center): 1-800-222-1222
Vessels of Opportunity Program:
281-366-5511
If you missed our ad in the
Press-Register on Sunday, May 30, you can view it online here:
Oil Spill Response, Recovery, and Restoration:
MBNEP Partners Taking Action. The ad provides a summary of
what many of our partners are doing in response to the Deepwater Horizon
spill.
Factsheet:
Oil on Private Property
MBNEP and Alabama Coastal Section
are working with Coastal Bird Conservation in a monitoring effort to
determine pre- and post-spill impacts to beach-nesting birds,
shorebirds, and their habitats across the Gulf Coast. Click
here
for photos from the field.
A peer listening training session
is scheduled for July 23, 2010 in Gulf Shores, AL. This training teaches
trusted community leaders how to help friends, neighbors, and co-workers
who may be reluctant to seek professional mental health services due to
the effects of the oil spill. If you would like to be trained, register
online
here.
Transcripts of three community
forums about the oil spill held in Biloxi, MS and Mobile, AL in early
June are now available online at
http://gulfseagrant.tamu.edu/oilspill/transcripts.htm.
The forums were question and
answer sessions that covered several topics: wildlife and fisheries;
technological disasters and mental health; business and personal
finance; data and monitoring; and legal perspectives.
Donate to Restore our Estuary
In light of the impending threat of
the oil leak to our fragile ecosystem, The Mobile Bay NEP has set up the
Coastal Estuary Restoration Fund (CERF) with the Community Foundation of
South Alabama to support projects that will restore the long term health
of the water quality, living resources, habitats, and human uses of
Mobile Bay and its estuarine environment. To give, visit the
Community Foundation's website and
designate your donation for the Coastal Estuary Restoration Fund.
For a central site with information
concerning the Deepwater Horizon spill and impacts on human health,
seafood, recovery, and oiled wildlife, please visit the
Gulf of
Mexico Sea Grant site, which will be continually updated as
information comes in.
Volunteer Information
We are no longer
collecting volunteer information. If you are interested in
volunteering to reduce the impacts of the oil spill to our Bay, please
call Alabama 211 at 1-866-421-1266 or the BP Volunteer Request line at
1-866-448-5816.
If you live in Mobile or Baldwin
Counties, Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, and the
Coalition of Active Stakeholders Team (COAST) have developed a volunteer
field observer program to assess our shorelines pre- and post-oil spill
impact. If you are interested in this program, contact the Alabama
Coastal Foundation office at 251-990-6002.
To keep up to date, visit
our
Facebook page!
The Town of Dauphin Island has sent
this notice on the plan to protect
water supply.
Gulf of Mexico Alliance
Governors' Action Plan II
Implementation and Integration Workshop
Beau Rivage Resort - Biloxi, MS
August 3-5, 2010
More info at
http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/actionplan/index.html.
Vibrios in the
Environment 2010 Conference
Beau Rivage Resort - Biloxi, MS,
November 8-12, 2010
Restore America's Estuaries
Conference
Galveston Island, TX
November 13-17, 2010
