Oil spill science and technology

This book delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors, to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fingas, Mervin F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Gulf Professional Publishing 2017
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 1. Oil spills and risk perceptions / A.H. Walker
  • 2. Quantification of oil spill risk / D.S. Etkin [and five others]
  • 3. Oil physical properties : measurement and correlation / B. Hollebone
  • 4. Chemical fingerprints of crude oils and petroleum products / C. Yang [and seven others]
  • 5. Oil spill remote sensing / M. Fingas, C.E. Brown
  • 6. Oil spill detection using space-borne sentinel-1 SAR imagery / K. Topouzelis, S. Singha
  • 7. Laser fluorosensors / C.E. Brown
  • 8. Introduction to spill modeling / M. Fingas
  • 9. Physical spill countermeasures on water-response in fast currents / K.A. Hansen
  • 10. In situ burning : an update / M. Fingas
  • 11. Shoreline countermeasures / E.H. Owens
  • 12. Bioremediation of oil spills on land / L.D. Brown [and three others]
  • 13. Sunken and submerged oil / J. Michel, K.A. Hansen
  • 14. Oil pollution in Antarctica / T. Raymond [and four others]
  • 15. Deepwater horizon well blowout mass balance / M. Fingas
  • 16. Assessing the increase in background oil-contamination levels along Alabama's beaches resulting from the deepwater horizon oil spill / T.P. Clement, G.F. John, F. Yin
  • 17. Remote sensing of oil slicks for the deepwater horizon damage assessment / J.V. Holmes, G. Graettinger, I.R. MacDonald
  • 18. The Hebei spirit oil spill, 2007 / U.H. Yim, W.J. Shim
  • 19. Health aspects of the Hebei spirit oil spill / M.-S. Park [and three others]
  • 20. Recent studies on the effects of oil / G. Shigenaka