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  <dc:contributor>D.H. Mann</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>J.W. Short</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>G.V. Irvine</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2008</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="EXLDetailsDisplayVal"&gt;Final Rept. ; Prepared in Cooperation With&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Alaska&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Univ., Fairbanks. Inst. of Arctic Biology. Sponsored By National Marine Fisheries Service, Juneau, Ak.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Alaska&lt;/span&gt;Fisheries Science Center. ; Stranded&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Exxon&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Valdez&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Has Persisted for 16&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Years&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;At Boulder-&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Armored&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Beach Sites Along National Park Coastlines Bordering the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Gulf&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Alaska&lt;/span&gt;. These Sites Are Up to 640 Km&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;From&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Spill&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Origin and Were Contaminated By&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mousse, a Viscous Water-in-&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Emulsion. Although Surface&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Has Continued to Decline, Subsurface Oiling Persists in Patches. Especially Striking Is the General Lack of Weathering of Stranded&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Armored&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Beaches&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Over the Last 16&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Years&lt;/span&gt;. At Three of the Four Sites Where&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Was Sampled in 2005, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Was Compositionally Similar to 11-Day Old&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Exxon&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Valdez&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;, Even After 16&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Years&lt;/span&gt;. The Formation of Mousse Allowed Less-Weathered&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to Be Transported Long Distances. The Sequestration of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="searchword"&gt;Oil&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Beneath a Boulder Armor, Coupled With the Stability of the Boulder Armoring (Investigated By Examining Movement of Marked Boulders), Had Contributed to the Lengthy Persistence of This Stranded Oil. Opportunistic Sampling of Several Previously Studied Oiled Mussel Beds Indicates Continued Contamination of At Least One of the Sites By Not Very Weathered Exxon Valdez Oil. Long-Term Persistence of Oil in These Habitats Should Cause Reconsideration of Response Activities After Spills, and May Influence the Environmental Sensitivity Indices Applied to These Habitats.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. National Library of Medicine</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Monitoring lingering oil from the Exxon Valdez spill on Gulf of Alaska armored beaches and mussel beds sixteen years post-spill</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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