{"id":365,"date":"2010-06-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/06\/17\/geography-in-the-news-bp-oil-spill\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T13:00:00","slug":"geography-in-the-news-bp-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/06\/17\/geography-in-the-news-bp-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography in the News &#8211; BP Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bp.com\/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=40&amp;contentId=7061813\"> BP Oil Spill<\/a> is not breaking news, but as of this post it&#8217;s still happening. \u00a0The scale of the spill is still not easy to comprehend and today I found myself wondering &#8220;how large is it really?&#8221; The the following link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/6-ways-visualize-bp-oil-spill\/\">&#8220;6 Ways to Visualize the BP Oil Spill&#8221;<\/a> helps to put things in perspective. The page from <a href=\"http:\/\/makeuseof.com\/\">makeuseof.com<\/a> provides 6 other links from\u00a0commercial, federal and private entities that are attempting to aid in the monitoring and public awareness of this crisis. Embedded below is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifitwasmyhome.com\/\">Google Map mash-up<\/a> that allows you to place the oil slick on different geographic extents:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>   <\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Check the following RSS Box for updated imagery from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/oilspill\/index.html\">NASA&#8217;s Oil Spill Monitoring Page<\/a>, this is where those hours of studying your remote sensing text books and labs come to life.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the BP Oil Spill is not breaking news, but as of this post it&#8217;s still happening. \u00a0The scale of the spill is still not easy to comprehend and today I found myself wondering &#8220;how large is it really?&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2010\/06\/17\/geography-in-the-news-bp-oil-spill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}