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You searched for web pages with the title "exxon" or with the keywords "prince william" or with the topic "null" or in the region "null" or for the audience "null".

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Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery A case study in the Exxon Valdez oil spill, accompanied by a set of supporting resources, including student and teacher guides, an interactive quiz, an exercise with real data, and an interview with a National Ocean Service (NOS) scientist, Dr. Alan Mearns. 09.08.05 / 02.03.06
ESI Availability Find out what regions have been mapped using the ESI method and download metadata, indexes, and fact sheets for each ESI atlas. 06.24.08 / 07.14.08
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Overview of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Includes links to many related resources, including photo galleries. 01.30.08 / 07.24.08
Graphing Changes in Marine Life Abundance Try your hand at some marine biology! Follow these steps, designed for middle and high school students, to make a study of the marine life occupying a section, or quadrat, of Mearns Rock. 06.10.05 / 07.22.05
Mearns Rock Time Series How does marine life recover from a major, one-time stress, such as an oil spill? As you will learn here, the answer is not simple. 04.25.05 / 08.26.05
OR&R Reports about the Exxon Valdez Reports and papers about the Exxon Valdez oil spill published by Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) scientists between 1990 and 1999. 08.18.05 / 07.14.08
Response to the Exxon Valdez Spill Within hours after the tanker Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, a team of NOAA OR&R scientists arrived on-scene. 06.02.05 / 07.14.08
Summary Points: 10 Years of Intertidal Monitoring After the Exxon Valdez Spill A short summary of the main findings of NOAA biologists studying the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on intertidal shorelines in Prince William Sound. 05.27.05 / 07.14.08

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Exxon Valdez Spill Trajectory Prediction Here's how our computer model predicted the oil spilled from the Exxon Valdez would travel across Prince William Sound, Alaska, during the first week after that spill started in March 1989. (To see this trajectory again, just press the Reload button on your browser). Image format: GIF , size: 225.9K
Alaska Re-Release Letter An explanation of the software and documents included on the DVD for the re-release of three Alaska ESI datasets. Document format: PDF , size: 22.8K
Integrating Physical and Biological Studies of Recovery from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Case Studies of Four Sites in Prince William Sound, 1989-1994 A 1997 report describing findings from monitoring studies of four sites differing both in shoreline type and cleanup treatments received after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Document format: PDF , size: 2.1M

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Image Results

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Exxon Valdez Need default caption for this photo

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Two ships side by side
(08.19.04, unknown)
Exxon Valdez - Block Island after washing Need default caption for this photo

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Partially boomed area of shoreline and shallows
(08.25.04, unknown)
Exxon Valdez - Block Island before washing Need default caption for this photo

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Oiled shoreline
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Exxon Valdez - boom around salmon hatchery Need default caption for this photo

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Aerial view of boom in water around salmon hatchery
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Exxon Valdez - boom preventing oil refloating Need default caption for this photo

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Workers spraying rocks along shoreline with water
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Exxon Valdez - boom, barge, and skimmer Need default caption for this photo

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Two boats towing U-shaped boom
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Exxon Valdez - cleanup debris Need default caption for this photo

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Piles of garbage in plastic bags
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Exxon Valdez - depth of oil penetration Need default caption for this photo

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Woman examines pooled oil among rocks
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Exxon Valdez - grounded on Bligh Reef Need default caption for this photo

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Exxon Valdez in surf
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Exxon Valdez - heavy sheen on sea surface Need default caption for this photo

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Ocean surface with streaks through heavily oiled surface
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Exxon Valdez - high-pressure, hot-water washing Need default caption for this photo

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Workers spray oiled rocky shore with hot water
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Exxon Valdez - lightering remaining cargo Need default caption for this photo

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Two ships side by side
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Exxon valdez - oil high on beach front Need default caption for this photo

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Man standing in front of oiled rocks
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Exxon Valdez - oil pooled among rocks Need default caption for this photo

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oil pooled among rocks
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Exxon Valdez - oil terminal Need default caption for this photo

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Aerial view of loading piers at the Vladez terminal
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Exxon Valdez - oiled beach at Herring Bay Need default caption for this photo

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Oiled rocky beach
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Exxon Valdez - pools of oil on rocky beach Need default caption for this photo

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Stick dipped in pool of oil on rocky beach
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Exxon Valdez - scene in the command center Need default caption for this photo

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Three people planning
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Exxon Valdez - sediment plumes and sheens Need default caption for this photo

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Refloated oil in shallows near shoreline. Some areas are boomed.
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Exxon Valdez - surrounded by boom Need default caption for this photo

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Aerial view of the Exxon Valdez surrounded by boom
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Exxon Valdez - transport of oiled Need default caption for this photo

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Three workers on oiled shore with ship in background
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Exxon Valdez - trenching to measure oil penetration Need default caption for this photo

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Woman digging trench in sand with shovel
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Exxon Vladez - skimming operation Need default caption for this photo

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Two boats towing a collection boom
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Exxon Vladez - skimming operation Boom towed in front of skimmer funneling oil into skimmer

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Two boats towing a collection boom
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Link Results

5 items found

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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Information about the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, its impacts, and restoration and research efforts.
IncidentNews: T/V Exxon Valdez See actual spill response documents and photos on the IncidentNews site. This site is also managed by OR&R, and it provides details about current and past oil spill responses for which OR&R provided scientific support.
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council An independent non-profit organization that works to reduce pollution from crude oil transportation through Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.
Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery A case study in the Exxon Valdez oil spill, accompanied by a set of supporting resources, including student and teacher guides, an interactive quiz, an exercise with real data, and an interview with a National Ocean Service (NOS) scientist, Dr. Alan Mearns.
The Spill is Gone -- 10 Years Later, Debate Still Rages over Effects of the Exxon Valdez Disaster in Alaska Seattle Times article (3/21/99) discussing our biological monitoring studies of the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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