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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| author | 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. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 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. |
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| description | 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 unknowns. The subsurface retention of oil as finely dispersed droplets and emulsions, wellhead injection of dispersants, and deepwater retention of plumes of natural gas undergoing rapid microbial degradation were unprecedented and demanded the development of a new model for deepwater well blowouts that includes subsurface consequences. Existing governmental programs and policies had not anticipated this new theater of impacts, which thereby challenged decisionmaking on the spill response, on the assessment of natural resource damages, on the preparation for litigation to achieve compensation for public trust losses, and on restoration. Modification of laws and policies designed to protect and restore ocean resources is needed in order to accommodate oil drilling in the deep sea and other frontiers. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/736872022-09-30T21:44:10Z A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model 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. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Adams, E. Eric 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 unknowns. The subsurface retention of oil as finely dispersed droplets and emulsions, wellhead injection of dispersants, and deepwater retention of plumes of natural gas undergoing rapid microbial degradation were unprecedented and demanded the development of a new model for deepwater well blowouts that includes subsurface consequences. Existing governmental programs and policies had not anticipated this new theater of impacts, which thereby challenged decisionmaking on the spill response, on the assessment of natural resource damages, on the preparation for litigation to achieve compensation for public trust losses, and on restoration. Modification of laws and policies designed to protect and restore ocean resources is needed in order to accommodate oil drilling in the deep sea and other frontiers. National Science Foundation (Grant EF-0553768) 2012-10-09T17:13:00Z 2012-10-09T17:13:00Z 2012-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0006-3568 1525-3244 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73687 Peterson, Charles H., et al. “A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model.” BioScience 62.5 (2012): 461–469. © 2012 University of California Press and American Institute of Biological Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5577-683X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.5.7 BioScience Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf University of California Press University of California Press |
| spellingShingle | 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. A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title | A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title_full | A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title_fullStr | A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title_short | A Tale of Two Spills: Novel Science and Policy Implications of an Emerging New Oil Spill Model |
| title_sort | tale of two spills novel science and policy implications of an emerging new oil spill model |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73687 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5577-683X |
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