State Agencies

Other States

• Alabama Response Agencies
• Florida Response Agencies
• Mississippi Response Agencies
• Louisiana Response Agencies

Texas General Land Office

• Texas General Land Office Online Viewer
  • Oil Spill Mapping Viewer
• Measured and Forecast Currents for Texas and Western Louisiana Gulf Coast, Texas General Land Office, and Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group
  • Texas Automated Buoy System
• Educate Prevent and Respond
  • TGLO Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program
• Locational information on public beach and bay access sites along the Texas Coast
  • Texas Coasts
• Texas Beach Watch program provides the public with information about water quality at selected recreational beaches along the Texas coast
  • TexasBeachWatch.com

Texas Water Development Board

• Texas Water Development Board - Modeled Currents with Associated Winds and Tides
  • Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)

Texas Department of Emergency Management

• Regional and Section Chiefs and District Coordinators Contact Information
  • Texas Department of Emergency Managment

Texas Historical Commission

• Administration, Archeology, Architecture, Community Heritage Development, Historic Sites, History Programs
  • Texas Historical Commission

Texas Department of Transportation

• Texas Marine Forecast, TxDOT Highway Conditions, NDOW
  • Highway Conditions (drivetexas.org)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 

• Cleanups, Remediation, Emergency Response, Licensing, Permits, Registration, Preventing Pollution, Recycling, Reporting, Rules
  • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Texas Parks and Wildlife 

• Texas Parks and Wildlife Endangered Species Listings
  • Texas Parks and Wildlife

NOAA

Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) 

• A center of expertise in preparing for, evaluating, and responding to threats to coastal environments, including oil and chemical spills, releases from hazardous waste sites, and marine debris.
  • NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
• NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application Gulf of Mexico
  • ERMA
• Paper charts (RNC & PDF), Electronic Charts, Coast Pilot, Help
  • NOAA Nautical Chart Viewer
  • Other Charts and Products
• NOAA Currents
  • PORTS ^®
• NOAA Tides
  • Tide Predictions
• Wave and Offshore Wind Measurements
  • National Data Buoy Center and National Weather Service
• NOAA Spill Response Selection Guide
  • NOAA Guide
• Wave Forecasts
  • NOAA Wavewatch III

Sea Grant

Oil Spill Science

• Oil Spill Science Outreach Team
  • Oil Spill Science Outreach Publications

U.S. Department of Homeland Security:

United States Coast Guard

• News, Reports, Sector Commands, and National Marsec Level
  • USCG Marine Safety and Environmental Protection (HOMEPORT)

USFWS:

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

• USFWS Threatened and Endangered Species
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service
• USFWS IPaC, Information, Planning, and Conservation decision support system planning tool. (Species Listings)
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service IPaC

Other Resources

• The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited, 2016
  • ITOPF
• Oil Spill Prevention Response Development Center
  • API
• Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (NEBA)
  • IPIECA
• Sea Surface Temperature Imagery
  • Ocean Remote Sensing Group at Johns Hopkins University
• Worldwide vessel tracking by VesselFinder
  • Marine Traffic Vessel Tracker
• Tropical Weather Spaghetti Models 
   
  • Mike's Weather Page

Oil Spill Statutes, Regulations and Policies 

• Oil Pollution Act of 1990:
  • The federal framework for oil spill response
• Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1991
  • State law enacting the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response program
• Texas Administrative Code:
  • Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program
  • Natural Resources Damage Assessment
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:
  • USAC Website
  • Spill Response Nation Wide Permits (note NWP#s 13,20,38)