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Main Title A Comprehensive Approach to Problems with Oil Spills in Marine Environments: The Alaska Story.
Author Molak, V, Ed.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Davis-Hoover, W, Ed.
Khan, S, Ed.
Mehlman, MA, Ed.
Badolato, EV.
Baugh, T.
Cooney, JJ.
Desai, S.
Dietz, JS.
Field, LJ.
Gazda, S.
Glaser, JA.
Govind, R.
Gregorio, FM.
Haines, JR.
Kelmickis, VJ.
Levin, MA.
Lowry, LK.
Manville, AM, II.
Nisamaneepong, W.
Omenn, GS.
Payne, JR.
Pradhan, S.
Safferman, SI.
Siddique, B.
Sveum, P.
Tabak, H.
Venosa, AD.
Walker, AH.
Molak, Vlasta.
Year Published 1992
OCLC Number 986278719
ISBN 0911131264; 9780911131260
Subjects Oil spills--Alaska--Prince William Sound Region--Congresses ; Bioremediation--Congresses ; Oil spills--Environmental aspects--Alaska--Prince William Sound Region--Congresses ; Oil pollution of the sea--Congresses
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ELBM  TD427.P4C65 1992 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/24/1997
ESAM  TD427.P4C65 1992 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 08/16/1996
Collation 165 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Notes
Introduction and definition of the problem; Part I. Human and Environmental Costs of Oil Spills; History and current status of the EPA Alaska bioremediation project; Impact of regulations on oil spill cleanup; General Accounting Office work related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill with emphasis on economical and environmental cost issues; An Overview of subsistence fisheries and the Exxon Valdez oil spill; Assessment of human exposure to oil; Part II. Choice of Cleanup Method; Oil spill contingency planning; Physics and chemistry of Prudhoe Bay oil and its implications for the cleanup efforts; Cleaning up an oils spill, biological tools in the chest of clean-up options; Part III. Bioremediation (Biological Cleanup of Toxics); Environmental biotechnology, biotechnology solutions for hazardous chemical wastes and oil spill clean-up; Review of arctic Norwegian bioremediation research; Outline of a national bioremediation spill response plan (NBSRP) for oil spills; Microbial ecology and hydrocarbon degradation; Early intervention, perspectives for integrated bioremediaiton of oil spills; Part IV. Application of Bioremediation in the Valdez Oil Spill; Nutrient release characteristics of fertilizer applied to beaches polluted with oil; Laboratory studies to evaluate the enhanced biodegradation of the Alaska weathered crude oil components through the applications of nutrients; Screening of commercial inoculata for efficacy in stimulating oil biodegradation on laboratory microcosms; Evaluation process for the selection of bioremediation technologies for the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Proceedings of the Alaska Story a workshop held at Cincinnati, Ohio, 17-18 September 1990 on the various aspects of the Valdez oil spill, with particular emphasis on the biological cleanup efforts or bioremediation.