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Title

Before and after an oil spill : the Arthur Kill / edited by Joanna Burger.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Burger, Joanna.

Description

xi, 305 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In January 1990, New York Harbor suffered a major oil spill when an underwater pipe at an Exxon refinery leaked into the Arthur Kill, the fifteen-mile strait that runs between New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. The waterway is home to herons and egrets, fiddler crabs and sea turtles, and a favorite place for recreational fishing, bird-watching, hiking, and boating. It is also lined with refineries and a busy corridor for oil tankers. Because this industrial activity posed such a threat to the fragile ecosystem, biologists had been monitoring the region's water, soil, vegetation, and wildlife for some time before the oil spill. Thus, we have before-and-after data about the habitat - the only oil spill anywhere for which this is true. This unique book discusses the human consequences of the oil spill as well as providing detailed studies of its effects on the plants and animals of the Arthur Kill. Biologists, environmentalists, lawyers, and officials worldwide will find this book an essential guide to dealing with - and possibly preventing - future environmental disasters.

Alternative Title

Before & after an oil spill.

Subject

• Exxon Corporation
• Oil spills and wildlife > Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
• Oil spills > Environmental aspects > Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
• Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. > Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)

Note

• Spine title: Before & after an oil spill.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Governmental cooperation / Paul M. Hauge and Robert K. Tucker -- Legal considerations / Gordon J. Johnson -- The role of conservation organizations / Carolyn Summers -- Rehabilitation of contaminated wildlife / Lynne Frink -- Bioremediation and the Arthur Kill ; Immediate effects of oil spills on organisms in the Arthur Kill ; Effects of oil on vegetation / Joanna Burger -- The effects of oil spills on bivalve mollusks and blue crabs / Keith R. Cooper and Angela Cristini -- Fiddler crabs (Uca spp.) as bioindicators for oil spills / Joanna Burger, John N. Brzorad, and Michael Gochfeld -- Fish and shrimp populations in the Arthur Kill / John N. Brzorad and Joanna Burger -- Gull and waterfowl populations in the Arthur Kill / Alan D. Maccarone and John N. Brzorad -- The Arthur Kill oil spills : biological effects in birds / Katharine C. Parsons -- Biological effects : marine mammals and sea turtles / Romona Haebler -- The Arthur Kill, people, and oil spills / Joanna Burger -- Ecological risk, risk perception, and harm : lessons from the Arthur Kill / Michael Gochfeld and Joanna Burger -- From the past to the future : conclusions from the Arthur Kill ; Epilogue : a matter of viewpoint / Joanna Burger.

ISBN

0813520959

LCCN

^^^93043803^

OCLC

29466143

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library