A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil release posed the challenges of two types of spill: a familiar spill characterized by buoyant oil, fouling and killing organisms at the sea surface and eventually grounding on and damaging sensitive shoreline habitats, and a novel deepwater spill involving many unknown...

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Main Authors: Adams, E. Eric, Peterson, Charles H., Anderson, Sean S., Cherr, Gary N., Ambrose, Richard F., Anghera, Shelly, Bay, Steven, Blum, Michael, Taylor, Caz M., Condon, Robert, Graham, Monty, Dean, Thomas A., Guzy, Michael, Hampton, Stephanie, Joye, Samantha, Lambrinos, John, Mate, Bruce, Meffert, Douglas, Somasundaran, Ponisseril, Spies, Robert B., Tjeerdema, Ronald, Powers, Sean P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of California Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73687
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5577-683X