Deepwater Horizon oil spill response

A biologist looks through binoculars from a boat near oil booms.

Deepwater Horizon oil spill response

Felix Lopez, an environmental contaminants specialist from the Service's Boquerón, Puerto Rico Field Office, scans for oiled birds in Barataria Bay, Louisiana during the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010..

Image

Photo By/Credit

Tom MacKenzie/USFWS

Facility

Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office

Ecosystem

Coastal

Marine

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Subject tags

BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010

Coasts

Contaminants

Human-wildlife conflicts

Marine environments

Oil spills

Petroleum chemical industries

Pollution

Shorebirds

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