Dear fellow scientist, In response to the BP oil spill, the Ecological Society of America is looking for metadata that may be useful to assess the ecological impacts of this catastrophe. The only way to appropriately measure, mitigate and prevent catastrophes of such caliber is through a careful evaluation of pre- and post-spill impacts. Therefore, we need your help!
If you have any data that are related to the natural ecosystems (terrestrial or aquatic) in the southern US/Gulf Coast region (i.e., Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida) the Ecological Society of America would like to request that you describe the nature of the metadata so that we can then evaluate the most effective strategy to study the impacts of the oil spill. Please note that we are not requesting the raw data (but a description of the data, a.k.a. metadata) - we just want to know what data exist. Also, if you know of some colleague with pertinent data, we would appreciate if you could forward this email to him/her, or let us know his/her email contact so we can contact them directly. You can either - Go to http://www.esa.org/mdc/submit.data.php and fill out a very short data registry form Or you can - Copy-paste the statement below, fill in the < > and send it to one of the emails listed below for each state. Statement: Yes I can help in evaluating the impacts of the BP oil spill I have data on < type of data > <state where data was collected> <affiliation > <email where you can be reached> Email to: Alabama – [email protected] Mississippi - [email protected] Louisiana – [email protected] Florida - [email protected] Other regions: [email protected] For more information about this project please visit http://www.esa.org/mdc/or contact Rob Salguero-Gomez and Jorge Ramos at [email protected] Many thanks! ESA – BP Oil Spill Recovery Team -- "Illic est haud via ut prosperitas tamen exsupero in panton" .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Rob Salguero-Gómez PhD candidate EEB Department of Biology, Leidy Labs 321/330, 3740 Hamilton Walk University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Lab phone: 215-898-8419; 215-898-8608; Fax: 215 898.8780; [email protected] http://sites.google.com/site/RobResearchSite/
