Title: Monitoring lingering oil from the Exxon Valdez spill on Gulf of Alaska armored beaches and mussel beds sixteen years post-spill
Description: "Objectives for this project were to: 1) Monitor surface and subsurface oil at 6 previously established sites (armored beaches) along the Gulf of Alaska coast; 2) Assess boulder movement at the sites in order to investigate the relationship of substrate stability to oil persistence; 3) Determine the chemical weathering of the oil"--P. 4-5.
Subjects: Mussels, Environmental monitoring, Oil pollution of soils, Effect of oil spills on
Places: Gulf of Alaska, Alaska