Bahia Las Minas, Panama Oil Spill Assessment, 1986-1991 (NODC Accession 9400033)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2014
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 9400033; CORAL; CORAL - CENSUS; CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; INVERTEBRATE SPECIES; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; coral reef surveys; photograph; swimmer/diver; biological; BEACH AND INTERTIDAL SITES; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS); UNKNOWN; Caribbean Sea; oceanography; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; Keller; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/{3AD11A0B-DE19-4252-A9B2-A115856FC1CA}

In April 1986 a major oil spill from a ruptured storage tank at a local refinery just east of the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal polluted an area of coral reefs, mangrove forests, and grassbeds along the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Panama. The area affected included a biological reser...