Lingering Oil Measurements, Site, Sample, and Photographic Data from Prince William Sound, 2015, Gulf Watch Alaska Lingering Oil Component

• Main Authors: Mandy Lindeberg, Mark Carls, Kris Holderied, Molly McCammon, Katrina Hoffman
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace
• Subjects: Knight Island; Evans Island; Green Island; Latouche Island; Eleanor Island; Smith Island; Prince William Sound; Exxon Valdez oil spill; EVOS Gulf Watch Alaska; Exxon Valdez; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; EVOSTC; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > HYDROCARBONS; EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > EARTH GASES/LIQUIDS > PETROLEUM; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > WATER QUALITY > OCEAN CONTAMINANTS; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431/rw1k1h

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA), Lingering Oil component of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, project numbers 12120114-S, 13120114-S, 14120114-S, 15120114-S and, 16120114-S. Gulf Watch Alaska is the long-term integrated monitoring program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC) for the marine ecosystem affected by the 1989 oil spill. The Lingering Oil Surveys dataset was designed to provide the EVOSTC with an assessment of persistent Exxon Valdez oil in Prince William Sound. This dataset is comprised of two related data types: survey and sample data in distinct data tables, which are provided in CSV format; and survey photographs from each sample site. The data tables describe survey locations, sampling sites, chain of custody for samples, gravimetric analysis of oiling at sampling sites, and the method detection limited analyte composition of samples. Surveys were conducted in June of 2015 at nine locations within Prince William Sound. Detailed standard operating procedures of the lingering oil monitoring surveys and petroleum hydrocarbon analysis are included as a pdf files. Survey photos are organized into shore-segment-based collections provided as PDFs files containing all photos from each shore segment. Each collection contains embedded images documenting the survey performed at the shore segment named in the file name (e.g. '2015_SM006B_photos.pdf'). Each page displays one image and provides the file name for the image.