The effects of oil spills on marine biology

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The idea of off shore drilling for oil has been around sense 1897, and the first ocean drilling station was created in the summer of 1954. Offshore oil drilling has many effects on the marine life. Aside from the large scale oil spills the way that researchers find the oil pockets is by using seismic waves. These seismic waves cause many whales and other species to be disoriented and cause mass beaching’s. The other big effect is the oil that is released has a damaging effect. The oil can get into animal’s fur and cause them to not retain their heat causing hypothermia that leads to death. The oil also causes issues due to the fact that marine life swims through it or reefs that are forced to sit in the oily substance. My capstone project will focus on the oil spills that effect marine life and what can be done to fix this. I will use an infographic to illustrate statistics and other facts about the issue. I will also do a video mashup of different things from marine life to videos of oil spills. These two media forms relate to each other because the infographic is a visual way of showing statistics that someone might not otherwise have read. The video mash up is a way of showing the animals and how they are before and after oil spills so that people don’t think its something that isn’t important or doesn’t relate to them. My two media forms will tie into my subject of damaging oil spills on the environment by being a call to action of showing what will continue to happen if nothing is done.

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