[SouthWings] Best Practices in Aerial Observation of Oil Spills in Open Water
In the five years since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in April of 2010 -- killing 11 people and leading to an uncontrolled 87-day oil gusher that covered vast areas of the Gulf of Mexico in oil -- SouthWings and our partners in the Gulf Monitoring Consortium have learned much about effective citizen reporting of pollution, especially related to oil spills in water. Thanks to the work of SkyTruth, we have also…