As you may be aware, Audubon has been working to identify opportunities for volunteers to assist with wildlife relative issues associate with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
We have been working with the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Services to identify these, and are carefully planning a few such opportunities that will be launched in the next week or so through our new Audubon Volunteer Response Center in Moss Point.
However, we have received a request from the U.S. Coast Guard Incident Command Center in Mobile for assistance in conducting daily assessments of the condition of our beaches.
This request DOES NOT, to our knowledge, reflect any immediate expectation of oil products hitting the shoreline. Rather, it is an effort to take a snapshot of conditions over the next few days.
The request from the Coast Guard is for daily surveys of selected beach sections, taken first thing in the morning, after sunrise and before about 7:30 a.m. Reports on conditions are being requested by 7:30 each morning for consistency.
If you think you can help with this assessment, please respond to the email address below. Staff of the MS Commission for Volunteer Services will be in touch with additional details about the location and instructions.
msoilspillvolunteers@gmail.com
PLEASE BE AWARE – we know that you probably have a number of questions about this request and what we asking you to do. We will not, however, have much capacity to respond to them over the weekend. We WILL however, follow up with a more detailed plan of action early next week.
Mark LaSalle, Pascagoula River Audubon Center
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