Sarah Rosedahl in NOLA: Gulf Oil Spill Resources

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Where to find news about the oil spill...

Many of these organizations have Facebook groups and are on twitter, where they are reporting news about the oil spill daily. Search for #oilspill on Twitter.

Times Picayune and other stories http://www.nola.com/
Local TV Broadcast News WWLTV website http://www.wwltv.com/
Local TV Broadcast News WDSU website http://www.wdsu.com/index.html
Local TV Broadcast News Fox 8 website http://www.fox8live.com/default.aspx
Local New Orleans investigative news TheLensNOLA http://thelensnola.org/
Mobile Press-Register http://www.al.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/
Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

National Audubon Society http://audubon.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/audubonsociety
Audubon Nature Institute http://www.auduboninstitute.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/audubonzoo Twitter http://twitter.com/AudubonZoo
Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program http://www.btnep.org/home.asp Facebook http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/BTNEP
Crisis Commons http://crisiscommons.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/OilReport
Global Green USA http://globalgreen.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/globalgreenfans Twitter http://twitter.com/globalgreenusa
Greenpeace Twitter http://twitter.com/Greenpeace
Gulf Coast Fund http://www.gulfcoastfund.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/GulfCoastFund
Gulf Restoration Network http://www.healthygulf.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/HealthyGulf Twitter http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gulf-Restoration-Network-United-for-a-healthy-Gulf-of-Mexico/290318237203
Louisiana Bucket Brigade http://www.labucketbrigade.org/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1230560413#!/group.php?gid=17706497635 Twitter http://twitter.com/labucketbrigade
International Bird Rescue Research Center http://ibrrc.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/IBRRC
Mobile Bay National Estuary Program http://www.mobilebaynep.com/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1230560413#!/mobilebaynep Twitter http://twitter.com/mobilebaynep
National Wildlife Federation http://nwf.org/ Twitter http://twitter.com/NWF
Natural Resources Defense Council http://switchboard.nrdc.org/gulfspill.php Twitter http://twitter.com/nrdc Facebook http://www.facebook.com/nrdc.org
Save the Gulf of Mexico Facebook group created by Gulf Coast news sources http://www.facebook.com/?tid=1279946649664&sk=messages#!/SaveTheGulfOfMexico Twitter http://twitter.com/SaveTheGulf
SCHOLR (Student Coalition to Help the Oil Leak Relief) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116228368408055&v=wall
Sierra Club http://sierraclub.org/ Delta Chapter on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1230560413#!/group.php?gid=314869644946 Twitter http://twitter.com/Sierra_Club

Official BP website http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com
Louisiana http://emergency.la.gov/
EPA http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/

Volunteer Efforts

Below are a list of organizations aiding in the clean up efforts by state. Click on the links to sign up to become an on-call volunteer for anticipated wildlife rescue/shoreline cleanup efforts.

Alabama: Mobile Bay National Estuary Program or www.servealabama.gov
Mississippi: Pascagoula River Audubon Center or www.volunteermississippi.org
Florida: http://www.volunteerfloridadisaster.org/ or http://www.volunteerflorida.org/

More information http://www.facebook.com/#!/note.php?note_id=397168062343&id=1043989115&ref=mf

Additional lists of opportunities: http://murderedgulf.wordpress.com/

Birders: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/survey-gulf-coast-birds

Sierra Club: http://action.sierraclub.org/Oil_Spill_CleanUp Follow on twitter http://twitter.com/sierra_club

Newly formed Sierra Club Activist Network Eco Rescue and Recovery Team:

http://connect.sierraclub.org:80/community/teams.htm?cons_id=&ts=1274969361&signature=f187ae9d655eedcec2997cead087e4f1

Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program http://volunteer.btnep.org/

Newly formed Dredge Baby Dredge: http://www.dredgebabydredge.com/index.html

National Audubon Society http://www.audubonaction.org/site/PageServer?pagename=aa_HowtoHelp Follow on twitter http://twitter.com/audubonsociety

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, watch website for announcements and/or sign up to receive Basin Bulletin: http://www.saveourlake.org

Global Green USA: http://ggusa.globalgreen.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=2640

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana: http://www.crcl.org/coalitionprograms/oilspillrecovery.html

Volunteer Louisiana: http://www.volunteerlouisiana.gov/

Louisiana Bucket Brigade: http://www.labucketbrigade.org/

Hair for Oil Spills, Matter of Trust: http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html

St Bernard Parish, Commercial Fisherman: www.sbpg.net Click Contact Us button on top of the web site.

LSU Student Coalition for Helping the Oil Leak Relief SCHOLR: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116228368408055

Help map oil spill effects using your GPS-enabled HTC Incredible phone: http://bit.ly/9GlUbV Tweet #BPspillmap and #oilreport

Louisiana Serve Update

Thank you for your continued patience as this event unfolds. We are grateful that our coastline continues to have minimal impact at this point, though we are preparing for the worst. Below is updated information which you may find useful:

You may register with Gulf Response Involvement Team (GRIT) as they are now beginning beach mitigation efforts: www.lagulfresponse.org. By registering with them you will receive notifications of volunteer opportunities directly.

There are oil spill-related opportunities emerging in the New Orleans region. For a listing of these opportunities, please visit http://tinyurl.com/25b5tm6. Please note that some of these opportunities will help individuals affected by the oil spill. Many people's lives have been displaced by this event. While you may be interested primarily in environmental issues, please consider the human services opportunities as well.

NOTE: Volunteers must be trained before participating in any direct contact oil spill response. You must be at least 18 years old, able to follow both written and oral directions, and meet both the training and physical requirements for the role you would fill. BP is providing all of this training. Volunteers must be trained to rescue and care for the injured wildlife. Unauthorized individuals can, even with the best of intentions, harm irreparably the affected animals, some species of which are not accustomed to any kind of human interaction.

We appreciate deeply the nation's continued support and the many offers of help.

Depending on your locations and availability, you may also want to reach out to www.volunteermississippi.org, www.servealabama.gov or www.volunteerflorida.org to see what opportunities they may have.

LA Serve will continue to keep you updated as the situation changes.

Janet Pace
Louisiana Serve Commission
www.volunteerlouisiana.org

http://www.volunteerlouisiana.org

If you have a boat: 1-425-745-8017

Mobile Bay Request for Volunteers: http://www.mobilebaynep.com/

CNN article about volunteer efforts http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/30/impact.oil.spill/

State of Louisiana Emergency Response: http://emergency.louisiana.gov/training.html

BP: www.oilspillvolunteers.com

Report Injured Wildlife

Oiled Wildlife Care Network 1-800-557-1401 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-800-557-1401 end_of_the_skype_highlighting http://www.owcn.org/
Oil injured wildlife hot line: (866) 557-1401

Daily updates about injured wildlife from Fort Jackson, Plaquemines: http://www.intbirdrescue.blogspot.com/
Follow on twitter: http://twitter.com/ibrrc

Other Information

Photos from May 30, 2010 French Quarter protest: http://bit.ly/cwSkRj

Dolphins swimming next to oil boom at Grand Isle, May 9, 2010

My photos from Grand Isle, LA May 9, 2010. Lots of birds, some dolphins, some oil boom: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24310056@N07/sets/72157623905007517/

Photos from Sierra Club's Clean It Up! Rally: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24310056@N07/sets/72157624020619322/