Monitoring of oiled mussel beds in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska
By: Mark G. Carls and Patricia M. Harris.
Contributors: Harris, Patricia M.; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
Publisher: EVOS Trustee Council
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Mytilus trossulus -- Effect of oil spills on -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Oil spills and wildlife -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Hydrocarbons -- Toxicology -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Restoration ecology -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Intertidal ecology -- Environmental aspects -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989 -- Environmental aspects; Contaminated sediments -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound -- Analysis; Marine sediments -- Alaska -- Prince William Sound -- Analysis
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Notes: Authors affiliated with NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Auke Bay Laboratory, Juneau, Alaska.

"Restoration Project 00090."

"June 2004."

Includes bibliographical references.

Final report.

Also available in electronic format via Internet (ill. and maps col.).

Funded by Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

This item was harvested from the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Project web site:  http://www.gem.state.ak.us/Store/Final%5FReports/875.pdf in Jan. 2006 for the Alaska State Publications Program; remote access available via StaticURL.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Objectives; title: Intertidal Exxon Valdez oil retention, bioavailability, and toxicity, 1989-2000 in Prince William Sound, Alaska; title: Persistence of oiling in mussel beds after the Exxon Valdez oil spill; title: Restoration of oiled mussel beds in Prince William Sound, Alaska; title: Detection and resolution of petroleum sources in the marine environment; title: Geographic distribution of hydrocarbons in mussels; title: Geographic distribution of hydrocarbons in sediment; title: Time series TPAH concentrations in mussels and sediment; title: Detection of oil in experimentally exposed water, sediment & fish.