Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council posed four research questions comparing the efficacy of dispersant use and mechanical response for near-shore oil spills in US waters. This document addresses those questions, with some variations based on the limitations of the data set used for statistical and qualitative analysis. The...
This paper is a review of field monitoring of the effectiveness of oil spill dispersants. The purpose of monitoring is to determine if a dispersant application was relatively effective or not. The most common protocol now is the NOAA SMART monitoring protocol. The protocols currently consist of visual criteria and...
This white paper is a perspective on the field-testing of the effectiveness of oil spill dispersants. All field tests conducted are briefly reviewed and literature that relates to testing methodology. Twenty-five considerations on the field-testing of dispersants are discussed in this paper. Each of these factors is important to the...
This paper is a review of the literature on oil spill dispersants published from 1997 to January 2002. As in the literature before this time-period, it was found that results are often contradictory from one study to another. The paper identifies and summarizes recent advances in dispersant effectiveness, toxicity, and...
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