TY  - GEN
T1  - Before and after an oil spill : the Arthur Kill
A2  - Burger, Joanna
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44964778
AB  - 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.
OP  - 305
CN  - QH545.O5 B44 1994eb
SN  - 0585098255
SN  - 9780585098258
SN  - 081355523X
SN  - 9780813555232
SN  - 0813520959
KW  - Exxon Corporation.
KW  - Exxon Corporation
KW  - Oil spills and wildlife : Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
KW  - Oil spills : Environmental aspects : Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
KW  - Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc. : Arthur Kill (N.J. and N.Y.)
KW  - Déversements de pétrole et faune : Arthur Kill (N.J. et N.Y.)
KW  - Déversements de pétrole : Aspect de l'environnement : Arthur Kill (N.J. et N.Y.)
KW  - Pollution des cours d'eau, ports, etc. par les hydrocarbures : Arthur Kill (N.J. et N.Y.)
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Environmental : Pollution Control.
KW  - Oil pollution of rivers, harbors, etc.
KW  - Oil spills and wildlife
KW  - Oil spills : Environmental aspects
KW  - Atlantic Ocean : Arthur Kill (Newark Bay)
KW  - Earth & Environmental Sciences.
KW  - Ecology.
ER  -