Environmental effects of oil spills: II. Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute, and U.S. Coast Guard Conference on prevention and control of oil pollution.

• Main Authors: Hutchinson, T.C., Snow, N.B., Eisler, R., Anderson, R.D., Lee, R.F., McAuliffe, C.D., Williams, G.N.
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute, and U.S. Coast Guard. 1975
• Subjects: oil pollution; oil spills; petroleum hydrocarbons; oysters; environmental effects; aromatic hydrocarbons; Arctic; Boone Creek; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/22494

517 p. Research report: Various research projects on the environmental effects of oil pollution are described. Topics include: effects of experimental crude oil spills on Canadian arctic vegetation; effect and fate of crude oil spilled on two arctic lakes; effects of petroleum on red sea macrofauna; petroleum hydrocarbons and oysters in Galveston Bay, Tex.; fate of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine zooplankton; an investigation of the 1970 Chevron main pass block 41 oil spill; prediction of the fate of oil in the marine environment; long term oil spill effects at Falmouth, Mass.; effects of the Boone Creek, S.C., oil spill; persistence and effects of light fuel oil in soils; fate and effects of oil on an estuarine pond; biodegradation of crude oil studied by computerized mass spectrometry; and distribution of aromatic hydrocarbons in water, sediment, and animal tissues in an experimental shrimp pond. http://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htm