Philippe Cousteau, Jr.: The Tremendous Power of an OSPREY Program Video-cam in the Hand

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Philippe Cousteau, Jr., documentary filmmaker, environmentalist, and Ocean Correspondent for Discovery Channel, visits Apalachicola Bay on July 13, 2010, to focus on its unique, but fragile, river and bay ecosystems. While visiting, Philippe learned of a fantastic local response program that addresses the pyschological and scientific impacts of the oil spill along the Gulf of Mexico coastline. The OSPREY [Oil Spill REcoveRY] Program is a volunteer mission of the Apalachicola Bay and Riverkeeper to photo-monitor the coastline of Apalachicola Bay in Franklin County Florida. This citizen science program was initiated in May 2010 as a response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill that threatens our Bay ecosystems, its fisheries, and our livelihoods along the Panhandle Gulf Coast of Florida. Following established protocols, and Environmental Sensitivity Maps, we are using video cams and GPS devices to catalog the baseline conditions of habitats along our shores. We train citizens of local communities and loan out OSPREY Kits containing everything they need to participate in this environmental documentation project. We are posting and indexing these videos, along with field observation data, to a photo-sharing site on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/riverkeeper_osprey_program/ and to Google Earth. Site Visitors will be able to add their own observations, and data update, and eventually, their own photos, and in this way, our efforts will create a comprehensive and ongoing data and image archive of the incredibly rich natural resources here.

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[cousteaucoubertin]

querido cousteau, gracias por la camara y te quiero querido amigo! seguimos adelante y hacia el futuro! :)