Handbook of Oil Spill Science and Technology (eBook)

Merv Fingas has 40 years of experience in oil and chemical spill research. 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.

Risk Analysis

1. 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 andPetroleum 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 andPrediction
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 PetroleumImpacted 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 OilSpills on Seabirds
Drs. Roger C. Helm, Harry R. Carter, R. Glenn Ford, D. MichaelFry, 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. DeBruyn, Thomas J.O'Shea, Randall S. Wells, and Terrie M. Williams

19 Oil Spill Impact and Recovery of Coastal MarshVegetation
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, andA.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 RelatedHydrocarbons
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