Today’s episode features an interview with artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée, who is based in Arnaudville, LA. He talks about his conservation homesteading and his research into 14 species in the Gulf of Mexico identified as missing since the 2010 BP Oil Spill.
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For more information on today’s topic:
- Five Years Later: An Update on the Status of Collections of Endemic Gulf of Mexico Fishes Put at Risk by the 2010 Oil Spill
https://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=8728 - SPECIESMAP: a web-based application for visualizing the overlap of distributions and pollution events, with a list of fishes put at risk by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
http://www.prosanta.net/docs/SpeciesMap.pdf - Wanted: This bioluminescent little shark is missing from the Gulf of Mexico
https://lsuscienceblog.squarespace.com/blog/2017/7/28/wanted-this-bioluminescent-little-shark-is-missing-from-the-gulf-of-mexico - Oil spill Day 100: The 11 men who died on the Deepwater Horizon
https://www.al.com/live/2010/07/oil_spill_day_100_the_11_men_w.html
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