Deepwater Horizon oil spill response

A biologist looks through binoculars from a boat near oil booms.
Photo By/Credit

Tom MacKenzie/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
12/14/2021
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Felix Lopez, an environmental contaminants specialist from the Service's Boquerón, Puerto Rico Field Office, scans for oiled birds in Barataria Bay, Louisiana during the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010..
Facility
Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office
Ecosystem
Coastal
Marine
Subject tags
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010
Coasts
Contaminants
Human-wildlife conflicts
Marine environments
Oil spills
Petroleum chemical industries
Pollution
Shorebirds