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Water Sampling Data for BP Spill/Deepwater Horizon

Metadata Updated: March 22, 2024

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on 15 July 2010. In response to the BP oil spill, EPA sampled air, water, sediment, and waste generated by the cleanup operations.

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date July 20, 2016
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) April 29, 2011 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date July 20, 2016
Metadata Created Date March 22, 2024
Metadata Updated Date March 22, 2024
Reference Date(s) April 29, 2011 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Land and Emergency Management - Office of Emergency Management (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
Guid F1E9F5CB-66EB-4D70-BBD3-84A2AAFC33F1
Access Constraints Use Constraints: None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated., Access Constraints: None
Bbox East Long -12.68151645
Bbox North Lat 61.7110157
Bbox South Lat 6.65223303
Bbox West Long -138.21454852
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id 238f60a3-1d49-49c0-ab2a-7e48ead0c28c
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Licence Url https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Lineage This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation
Metadata Language eng; USA
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-138.21454852, 6.65223303], [-12.68151645, 6.65223303], [-12.68151645, 61.7110157], [-138.21454852, 61.7110157], [-138.21454852, 6.65223303]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2010-04-28
Temporal Extent End 2010-09-18

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