Provides a scientific basis for the cleanup and for the assessment of oil spills
* Enables Non-scientific officers to understand the science they use on a daily basis
* Multi-disciplinary approach covering fields as diverse as biology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, oceanography and toxicology
* Covers the science of oil spills from risk analysis to cleanup and through the effects on the environment
* Includes case studies examining and analyzing spills, such as Tasman Spirit oil spill on the Karachi Coast, and provides lessons to prevent these in the future
* Enables Non-scientific officers to understand the science they use on a daily basis
* Multi-disciplinary approach covering fields as diverse as biology, microbiology, chemistry, physics, oceanography and toxicology
* Covers the science of oil spills from risk analysis to cleanup and through the effects on the environment
* Includes case studies examining and analyzing spills, such as Tasman Spirit oil spill on the Karachi Coast, and provides lessons to prevent these in the future
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Risk Analysis1. Risk Analysis and Prevention
Dr. Dagmar Schmidt-Etkin
Oil Properties
2. Oil Physical Properties: Measurement and Correlation
Dr. Bruce Hollebone
Oil Properties and Properties
3 Introduction to Oil Chemistry and Properties
Dr. Merv Fingas
4 Vegetable Oil Spills: Oil Properties and Behaviour
Dr. Merv Fingas
Oil Analysis
5 Chromatographic Fingerprinting Analysis of Crude Oils and Petroleum Products
Dr. Chunn Yang
6 Oil Spill Identification
Dr. Joan Albaiges
Oil Behaviour
7 Oil and Petroleum Evaporation
Dr. Merv Fingas
8 Water-in-Oil Emulsions: Formation and Prediction
Dr. Merv Fingas and Ben Fieldhouse
9 Oil Behaviour in Ice-Infested Waters
Dr. Merv Fingas and Dr. Bruce Hollebone
Modelling
10 Introduction to Spill Modeling
Dr. M Fingas
11 Oceanographic and meteorological effects on spilledoil
Dr. C.J. Beegle-Krause and Dr. Bill Lehr
Detection, tracking and remote sensing
12 Oil Spill Remote Sensing
Dr. Merv Fingas and Dr. Carl Brown
13 Detection, tracking and remote sensing
Drs. K. Topouzelis, D.Tarchi, M. Vespe, O. Muellenhoff, G.Ferraro, and M. Posada
14 Detection of Oil in, with and under Ice and Snow
Dr. Merv Fingas and Dr. Carl Brown
Oil Spills on Land
15 Bioremediation of oil spills on land
Drs. L.D. Brown and Ania Ulrich
16 Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Petroleum Impacted Soil: A Scientifically Proven Green
Technology
Drs. K.E. Gerhardt, P.D. Gerwing, X.D. Huang, and B.M.Greenberg
Effects of Oil
17 Overview of Efforts to Document and Reduce Impacts of Oil Spills on Seabirds
Drs. Roger C. Helm, Harry R. Carter, R. Glenn Ford, D. Michael Fry, Roc¡o L. Moreno, Carolina Sanpera, and Flo S. Tseng
18 Overview of Effects of Oil Spills on Marine Mammals
Drs. Roger C. Helm, Daniel P. Costa, Terry D. De Bruyn, Thomas J.O’Shea, Randall S. Wells, and Terrie M. Williams
19 Oil Spill Impact and Recovery of Coastal Marsh Vegetation
Dr. Qianxin Lin
Natural Dispersion
20 A Review of Natural Dispersion Models
Dr. Merv Fingas
Cold Region Spills
21 Arctic and Antarctic Spills
Drs. D.M. Filler, M.C. Kennicutt II, I. Snape, S.T. Sweet, and A.G. Klein
Case Studies
22 The Prestige Oil Spill
Drs. J. Albaiges, A. Bernabeu, S. Castanedo, N. Jimenez, C. Morales-Caselles, A. Puente, and L.Vinas
23 The Grounding of the Bahia Paraiso, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica. Distribution and Fate of Oil Spill Related Hydrocarbons
Drs. S.T. Sweet, M.C. Kennicutt, II, and A.G. Klein
24 Tasman Spirit Oil Spill on the Karachi Coast, Pakistan
Hina A. Siddiqi and Alia Bano Munshi
Appendix
25 The Oil Properties Data Appendix
Dr. Bruce Hollebone
26 Conversions
27 Ice Nomenclature
Über den Autor
Merv Fingas has 40 years of experience in oil and chemical spillresearch. He has authored over 850 technical publications and
papers including books, manuals and over 500 peer-reviewed papers.
He has won over 20 awards for research and papers from the United
States Government, Canadian Government and international
conferences. Dr. Fingas has also collaborated on studies with
over 25 organizations around the world, coordinated studies for
over 30 years through 6 internationally-attended committees and
developed co-operative projects with many international groups.
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