Design and Conclusions of the Baffin Island Oil Spill Project

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Sergy, Gary A., Blackall, Peter J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Canada. Baffin Island Oil Spill Project; Environmental impacts; Marine oil spills; Oil spill cleanup; Oil spill dispersants; Eclipse Sound; Nunavut; Hatt; Cape; waters; Ragged Channel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Hatt; Arctique*; Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64851

The Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) Project sponsored multidisciplinary field studies between May 1980 and August 1983 in Canada's eastern Arctic at Cape Hatt, on the northern end of Baffin Island. Forty-five cubic metres (45,000 l) of a sweet medium gravity crude oil were released in a typical...