Potential Effects of Oil Spills on Marine Mammals that Occur in Alaskan Waters
Potential Effects of Oil Spills on Marine Mammals that Occur in Alaskan Waters

Author: Donald J. Hansen

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Report covers recent information (since 1985) on the potential effects of oil spills on marine mammals in Alaskan waters. Focuses primarily on the potential direct and indirect effects of oil spills on marine mammals, addresses both short-term effects that may occur at the time of contact with oil and long-term effects that may occur long after contact with oil. Considers sea otters, pinnipeds, polar bears, and cetaceans.

Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez
Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez

Author: Thomas R. Loughlin

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1483288811

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The oil spill disaster that occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground has become part of the iconography of ecological disaster. This book synthesizes previously confidential data only recently released by the U.S. government. The data concerns the effects of this nightmarish spill on marine mammals, such as sea otters, harbor seals, killer whales, and humpback whales. Because many of the book's contributors were on site within 24 hours of this 11 million gallon catastrophe, the book is a unique longitudinal study of the demise of an ecosystem due to a single acute environmental perturbation. These certain-to-be-influential results reported here should assist marine biologists, pathologists, toxicologists, environmentalists, engineers, and coastal planners in assessing the nature of this now legendary disaster.

Impacts of Oil Spill Disasters on Marine Habitats and Fisheries in North America
Impacts of Oil Spill Disasters on Marine Habitats and Fisheries in North America

Author: J. Brian Alford

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1466557214

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At an increasingly global scale, aquatic scientists are heavily entrenched in understanding the fate of marine ecosystems in the face of human-altered environments. Oil spill disasters, especially large-scale ones like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon tragedy, have left uncertain and indelible marks on marine ecosystems. Impacts of Oil Spill Disasters on