Google appear to have a website called Google Crisis Response which is available when disaster strikes. It’s currently active with the BP Oil Spill.
There are a compilation of Google Maps layers, with forecasts to where the oil is headed, and the latest satellite imagery. Then there are links to Google Earth/KML files with this, and more (such as animations of the spill). There is also this great overlay with all the worlds oil spills (and rapidly updating data on the current one).
The Daily Kos has an article on how to do “fucking proper fucking booming.” Quite interesting, and here’s a sum up in picture format!
