Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez
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Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez

  1. 395 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez

About this book

The oil spill disaster that occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground has become part of the iconography of ecological disaster. This book synthesizes previously confidential data only recently released by the U.S. government. The data concerns the effects of this nightmarish spill on marine mammals, such as sea otters, harbor seals, killer whales, and humpback whales. Because many of the book's contributors were on site within 24 hours of this 11 million gallon catastrophe, the book is a unique longitudinal study of the demise of an ecosystem due to a single acute environmental perturbation.These certain-to-be-influential results reported here should assist marine biologists, pathologists, toxicologists, environmentalists, engineers, and coastal planners in assessing the nature of this now legendary disaster.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter 1. Overview of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1989–1992
  10. Chapter 2. Response Activities
  11. Chapter 3. An Overview of Sea Otter Studies
  12. Chapter 4. Boat-Based Population Surveys of Sea Otters in Prince William Sound
  13. Chapter 5. An Intersection Model for Estimating Sea Otter Mortality along the Kenai Peninsula
  14. Chapter 6. Impacts on Distribution, Abundance, and Productivity of Harbor Seals
  15. Chapter 7. Impacts on Steller Sea Lions
  16. Chapter 8. Status of Killer Whales in Prince William Sound, 1985–1992
  17. Chapter 9. Assessment of Injuries to Prince William Sound Killer Whales
  18. Chapter 10. Impacts on Humpback Whales in Prince William Sound
  19. Chapter 11. Sea Otter Foraging Behavior and Hydrocarbon Levels in Prey
  20. Chapter 12. Observations of Oiling of Harbor Seals in Prince William Sound
  21. Chapter 13. Health Evaluation, Rehabilitation, and Release of Oiled Harbor Seal Pups
  22. Chapter 14. Effects of Masking Noise on Detection Thresholds of Killer Whales
  23. Chapter 15. Cetaceans in Oil
  24. Chapter 16. Pathology of Sea Otters
  25. Chapter 17. Gross Necropsy and Histopathological Lesions Found in Harbor Seals
  26. Chapter 18. Hydrocarbon Residues in Sea Otter Tissues
  27. Chapter 19. Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Tissues of Harbor Seals from Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska
  28. Chapter 20. Tissue Hydrocarbon Levels and the Number of Cetaceans Found Dead after the Spill
  29. Chapter 21. Summary and Conclusions
  30. Appendix I: Sample Collection, Storage, and Documentation
  31. Appendix II: Oil Tanker Accidents
  32. Subject Index