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Endangered Species Research, 2020 Hydrocarbon (i.e. oil) extraction, transport, consumption, and pollution occur daily in marine environments, threatening vulnerable natural resources, habitats, and biodiversity. However, threats of episodic oil spills to imperiled marine species are not
Wallace, BP +11 more
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Ecological response of phytoplankton to the oil spills in the oceans
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019 Oil spills in oceans have substantial influence on marine ecosystems. This study investigates 21 oil spills in the world. Analyzing Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiomerer (MODIS) data after Penglai oil spills on 4 June ...
Danling Tang +5 more
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Effects of Oil Spills on Marine and Coastal Wildlife
EDIS, 2010 WEC285, a 4-page fact sheet by Holly K. Ober, provides an overview of direct and indirect effects of oil spills on wildlife, factors influencing the degree of impact, susceptibility of various types of wildlife, and the history of oil spills in the Gulf ...
Holly K. Ober
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Progress of the Oil Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) Model and Its Applications
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for managing the development of US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy and mineral resources.
Zhen-Gang Ji +3 more
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Oil spill response technology for ice-covered waters in the Arctic [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 A technology for removing oil spills from under the ice, based on the use of the vortex funnel effect, is proposed. A comparative analysis of methods oil pollution removal from under the ice cover is carried out.
Mingazhev Askar +2 more
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Geochemical analysis of SAR backscattering (Sentinel-1) on global ocean oil spill cases
European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023 The oil spill is one of the most impactful sources of marine pollution on the ocean surface, detected by the SAR sensors as dark areas, regions with low backscatter values. Due to the complex mixture of hydrophobic hydrocarbons, mineral oil spills change
José Milton Neves de Souza Júnior +10 more
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Detection and Classification of Land Crude Oil Spills Using Color Segmentation and Texture Analysis
Journal of Imaging, 2017 Crude oil spills have negative consequences on the economy, environment, health and society in which they occur, and the severity of the consequences depends on how quickly these spills are detected once they begin. Several methods have been employed for
O’tega Ejofodomi, Godswill Ofualagba
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Oil Pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea by Satellite Remote Sensing Data in 2004-2015
Transport and Telecommunication, 2016 The results of satellite monitoring of oil pollution in the Southeastern Baltic Sea in 2004-2015 are discussed in the paper. Interannual and seasonal variability of oil pollution is investigated. A steady decrease in total oil pollution was observed from
Bulycheva Elena V. +4 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022 The Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) for oil spills was developed to assist coordinators to evaluate oil spill impact along shorelines and also to coordinate the allocation of resources during and after the incident, aiming to reduce environmental ...
RODRIGO I. CERRI +6 more
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Immediate ecotoxicological effects of short-lived oil spills on marine biota
Nature Communications, 2016 Large oil spills have negative effects on marine ecosystems, but the effects of chronic smallscale spills are less well understood. Here, Brussaard et al.
Corina P. D. Brussaard +10 more
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