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- Title
Advances in Understanding the Fate and Effects of Oil from Accidental Spills in the United States Beginning with the Exxon Valdez.
- Authors
Short, Jeffrey
- Abstract
Scientific studies of the environmental effects of oil spills in the United States have produced a steady stream of unexpected discoveries countering prior and often simplistic assumptions. In this brief review, I present how major discoveries from scientific studies of oil spill effects on marine ecosystems and environments, beginning with the 1989 Exxon Valdez, have led to a more informed appreciation for the complexity and the severity of the damage that major spills can do to marine ecosystems and to an increasing recognition that our ability to evaluate those damages is very limited, resulting in a structural bias toward underestimation of adverse environmental effects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OIL spills; OIL spills &; the environment; EXXON Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989; OIL pollution of the sea; OIL pollution of water
- Publication
Archives of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 2017, Vol 73, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0090-4341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00244-016-0359-4