List of Seabirds Salvaged, Prepared and Curated from the Exxon Valdez Spill (1989) - [UNFORMATTED]

• Main Author: Sievert Rohwer
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: seabird; injury; common murres; salvage; curation; EVOSTC; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; Oil Spill; Exxon Valdez; Pelagic; Birds; Oil and Contaminants; Study Catalogs; Aethia cristatella; Asio flammeus; Brachyramphus brevirostris; Brachyramphus marmoratus; Branta bernicla; Bucephala clangula; Bucephala islandica; Cepphus columba; Cerorhinca monocerata; Clangula hyemalis; Corvus caurinus; Corvus corax; Cyclorrhynchus psittacula; Fratercula cirrhata; Fratercula corniculata; Fulmarus glacialis; Gavia adamsii; Gavia immer; Gavia pacifica; Haematopus bachmani; Haliaeetus leucocephalus; Histrionicus histrionicus; Lagopus lagopus; Larus canus; Larus glaucescens; Melanitta fusca; Melanitta nigra; Melanitta perspicillata; Phalacrocorax NA; Phalacrocorax auritus; Phalacrocorax pelagicus; Phalacrocorax urile; Podiceps auritus; Podiceps grisegena; Polysticta stelleri; Pterodroma inexpectata; Ptychoramphus aleuticus; Puffinus griseus; Puffinus tenuirostris; Rissa tridactyla; Somateria spectabilis; Stercorarius parasiticus; Synthliboramphus antiquus; Uria aalge; Uria lomvia; cristatella; flammeus; brevirostris; marmoratus; bernicla; clangula; islandica; columba; monocerata; hyemalis; caurinus; corax; psittacula; cirrhata; corniculata; glacialis; adamsii; immer; pacifica; bachmani; leucocephalus; histrionicus; lagopus; canus; glaucescens; fusca; nigra; perspicillata; NA; auritus; pelagicus; urile; grisegena; stelleri; inexpectata; aleuticus; griseus; tenuirostris; tridactyla; spectabilis; parasiticus; antiquus; aalge; lomvia; Gulf of Alaska; Rotten; fratercula; rissa tridactyla; Alaska; uria
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/df35b.88.6

The University of Washington Burke Museum has received three grants to salvage and preserve samples of birds that were casualties of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. National Science Foundation Grant 92-18534 enabled us to send a crew of workers to sort the carcasses as they were thawed for incineration, and to ship a subset of these birds to the Burke Museum for preparation. NSF Grant 93- 16045 supported preservation of many of these birds, but was insufficient to complete the task because these heavily oiled and, often, rotten specimens were slow to prepare. Grants 97167 and 98167 from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council allowed us to complete this project. With the initial NSF sort, we salvaged smaller samples of species that were well-represented in collections, and all individuals of species that were either of known scientific interest, rare in collections, or impossible to collect in large numbers.