Post-incident monitoring to evaluate environmental damage from shipping incidents: Chemical and biological assessments

Efficient extraction and detection of aromatic toxicants from crude oil and tar balls using multiple cyclodextrin derivatives

“…Anthropogenic oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 highlight a number of unsolved problems in the areas of oil spill cleanup and remediation, 1-3 efficient detection of oi spill related toxicants in complex environments, 4 and the monitoring and understanding of long term effects of oil spills on complex ecosystems. 5 Current methods used for the skimming or booning of the oil, 6 burning oil on the surface of the water, chemical dispersants to facilitate oil dispersion, 8 and introducing oil-eating bacteria for 9 Many of these methods suffer from potentially serious drawbacks, including the environmental damage from oil burning, 10 the unknown toxicity of and the long-term disruption to the ecosystem from the introduction of non…”

Review on hazardous and noxious substances (HNS) involved in marine spill incidents—An online database

“…Additional data on the ecotoxicity of HNS will allow for better estimations of the risks to the ecosystem and draw monitoring programs for particular HNS of concern. The limited information on the impact of HNS spills documented here is, in many cases, due to inaction, but in many others, it is due to the nature of the compounds involved, hostility of the environment, lack of means, lack of expertise and inexistence of a priori elaborated plans to perform post-spill monitoring studies [27]. Monitoring programs aiming to assess the environmental impacts of spills should be launched as soon as an incident occurs.…”

Analytical developments for oil spill fingerprinting

“…Prestige in Europe, remote sensing is an area of fast development during the last decade [41][42][43][44]. The major efforts have been devoted to improve the reliability of the technique, reducing false positives and negatives.…”