Oil Spill Education Resources

These links are provided as suggestions only to help schools and community groups learn more about oil spills and their effects.

Information on the Rena Oil Spill

Maritime New Zealand- includes latest media updates, and photographs
Water monitoring- Bay of Plenty Regional Council
The Regional Council monitors rivers, lakes, tidal, rainfall, meteorological and air quality sites throughout the Bay of Plenty. The majority of these sites are telemetered i.e. the data from them is transmitted back to base via the radio or phone network. this maybe useful for older students to see how the Council is always checking the status of the water
Oiled Wildlife Response (Massey University)

Oil Spill Teacher Unit Plan with links to the New Zealand Curriculum (190 KB, pdf)
Oil Spill Information for Schools (Northland Regional Council)
An Ocean of Oil (National Wildlife Federation- USA)
Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals - The Age of Oil (EXITO Industry Training and New Zealand Geographic Society)
Year 12 and 13 Geography resource kit
Oil Spill education (National Geographic- USA)
Office of response and restoration- Students and teachers (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration- USA)
(NB Resources from the USA are mostly based on the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling rig explosion)