Experimental Design and the Retention of Oil on Arctic Test Beaches

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Owens, Edward H., Robson, Wishart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Beaches; Canada. Baffin Island Oil Spill Project; Composition; Environmental impacts; Intertidal zones; Marine oil spills; Ocean waves; Oil spill cleanup; Sediments (Geology); Soil temperature; Tides; Eclipse Sound; Nunavut; Hatt; Cape; waters; Ragged Channel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Hatt; Noire; Arctique*; Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64871

Oil was laid down in a series of experiments at Cape Hatt, Baffin Island, N.W.T., on pairs of control plots in the upper intertidal zone at four beach sites, each with a different wave exposure, and on backshore pairs of control plots at two sites. The control plots were established as a basis for c...