A MODELING SYSTEM FOR COASTAL OIL SPILL RISK ANALYSIS

On a risk management analysis of oil spill risk using maritime transportation system simulation

Is it safer for New Orleans river gambling boats to be underway than to be dockside? Is oil transportation risk reduced by lowering wind restrictions from 45 to 35 knots at Hinchinbrook Entrance for laden oil tankers departing Valdez, Alaska? Should the International Safety Management (ISM) code be implemented fleet-wide for the Washington State Ferries in Seattle, or does it make more sense to...

Interferometric oil-spill detection system

Uen-Chin Liang National Tsinghua University Department of Atomic Science Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan Abstract. Oil spillage in a body of water has been of great environmental concern. We present in this paper an automatic oil-spill detection system, which employs thin-film and wavefront-splitting interference techniques to determine the existence of surface oil or oil drops in water. Two independent ...

A new paradigm in oil spill modeling for decision making?

Control of spatial discretisation in coastal oil spill modelling

Spatial discretisation plays an important role in many numerical environmental models. This paper studies the control of spatial discretisation in coastal oil spill modelling with a view to assure the quality of modelling outputs for given spatial data inputs. Spatial data analysis techniques are effective for investigating and improving the spatial discretisation in different phases of the mod...

Microbial Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Coastal salt marshes are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems that can sustain long-term impacts from anthropogenic events such as oil spills. In this study, we examined the microbial communities of a Gulf of Mexico coastal salt marsh during and after the influx of petroleum hydrocarbons following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Total hydrocarbon concentrations in salt marsh sediments were high...