Like many organizations concerned about the vast impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill crisis, Sea to Shore Alliance has offered our expertise to help. 

Make a Donation towards S2S's Oil Spill Response Efforts!

What Your Gift Means
Your donation translates directly to our work. For example: $1,500 funds the airplane, pilot, staff, and fuel to get S2S's experienced aerial observers off the Gulf Coast to look for marine life impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Though the generous support of a donor, S2S was able to conduct a "pre-impact" aerial survey of Mobile Bay, described below. Your support will allow us to expand these efforts! It is critically important now that oil is hitting the Gulf Coastline.

CNN Online: Tracking Manatees and Oild Spill Impacts: Read or Watch S2S's Monica Ross and Save the Manatee Club's Pat Rose Track Manatees in Crystal River

Rescuing Manatees from the Oil Spill Sam Champion's 'Living the Dream' Guide Planning a Manatee Recue from Oil-Soaked Waters. Watch an interview with Buddy for Good Morning America Show.

Sea to Shore Alliance is working with our partners at Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and the US FIsh and Wildlife Service (FWS) to conduct emergency response aerial surveys within the inshore waters and coastline of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.   Our primary goal will be to record manatee numbers, locations and any indications of oil related stress or exposure.  In addition, we will provide similar data for inshore sea turtles and bottlenose dolphins noted during our survey route.  Following these "Emergency Response Surveys", we will begin conducting NRDA (Natural Resource Damage Assessmen) surveys; these surveys support NRDA's pre-assessment data collection activities for marine mammal and sea turtles.  The project proposal was coordinated with the Natural Resource Trustees and BP via the Marine Mammal/Sea Turtle NRDA echnical working group.

A timeline of Sea to Shore activities and surveys related to spill response is posted on a special Aerial Survey Response website.

In addition, you can follow the most up-to-date news posted almost daily by USFWS and NOAA at the following websites:

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon

http://www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/index.html

With the activities, several volunteer opportunities will available through S2S, as well as other partner agencies and organizations.  Contact info@sea2shore.org for more information