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Environmental Impact Assessment of Petroleum Spill Using GIS
Author: Simon Suo
Email: suo@design.upenn.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suosimon
Organization: Department of City and Regional Planning, The University of Pennslyvania
Mississippi
Summary
Alabama
Annual Fishery Revenue by State (in thousand dollars)
This study aims to illustrate the environmental impacts caused by
oil spill in an ocean area. The Gulf of Mexico is selected as the
study area with its abundant data sources. Three major factors
are considered as the economic loss, namely economic activity
loss, biodiversity loss and commercial fishery loss.
The oil spill area in this poster is imaginary, but it will not affect
the methodology behind the scene. The fishery and biodiversity
loss are calculated based on economic loss per pixel per year
in a dollar. The economic activity loss is calculated based on
whether the oil spill area will cover the economic activity points.
The final assessment result would be the total economic loss
for the whole oil spill area per day in dollars.
Louisiana
Texas
Florida
Legend
71
609
Water intake $100m per point per year
Diving $10m per point per year
Camping $10m per point per year
Recreational Fishing $14~110m per point per year
beach $62~118m per point per year
Texas
Mississippi Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Texas
Fish Habitat
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Legend
17
83
324
433
980
1,220
5,597
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Geographic, DeLorme, HERE, Geonames.org, and other contributors
Alabama
Florida
Florida
Florida
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other contributors, Sources: Esri, GEBCO,
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Louisiana
60,693
Annual fishery Revenue per pixel per year (in thousand dollars)
I appreciate Prof. Dana Tomlin, in the Department of City and
Regional Planning gave me insights about handling the
difficulity to quantify biodiversity loss. Specially thanks to
Tony LaVoi, NOAA Geospatial Information Officer from the
NOAA Office of the CIO, and Jay Coady, NOAA Spatial
Analyst from the NOAA Office of the CIO. Also, thanks to the
Gulf of Mexico Alliance and Environmental Response
Management Application® (ERMA) for their data.
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DeLorme, HERE, Geonames.org, and other contributors
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Geographic, DeLorme, HERE, Geonames.org, and other contributors
Acknowledgements
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Invertebrate Habitat
Marine Mammals Habitat
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
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other contributors, Sources: Esri, GEBCO,
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Birds Habitat
Florida
Mississippi
Mississippi Alabama
Texas
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Florida
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Terrestrial Mammal Habitat
Mississippi Alabama
Texas
Louisiana
Florida
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Reptile Habitat
Legend
Terrestrial Mammals $3,000 per pixel per year
Birds $2,000 per pixel per year
Marine Mammals $3,000 per pixel per year
Total biodiversity
value per pixel
Invertebrates $1,000 per pixel per year per year in $
Reptiles $1,500 per pixel per year
Florida
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Polluted recreational fishing sites
EIA losses
High : 5603169
High : 17000
Low : 0
Louisiana
Alabama
Louisiana
Fish $1,500 per pixel per year
Alabama
Low : 329446
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contributors, Sources: Esri, GEBCO, NOAA, National
Geographic, DeLorme, HERE, Geonames.org, and other
contributors
Gulf States
Sample spill sites
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Boundaries
Total: $1 million
loss per day
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