Project Information

Title: Comprehensive Assessment of Coastal Habitat CH1-A

Project Year and Number: 1992: CH1-A

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 1996: 96086, 1995: 95086-C, 1994: 94086, 1993: 93039, 1992: CH1-B, 1991: CH1-A, 1991: CH1-B, 1990: CH1, 1989: CH1

Principal Investigator (PI): Ray Highsmith (DOI )

Managing Agency: USFS

Assisting Personnel: Will Barber, Wallace Erickson, Lyman McDonald, Michael Stekoll, Dale Strickland

Research Location: All Spill Affected Areas

Restoration Category: Damage Assessment

Injured Resources Addressed: Intertidal Organisms

Abstract: The Coastal Habitat Injury Assessment (CHIA) study was designed to document and quantify injuries to biological resources found in the intertidal zone throughout the regions affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Key species of invertebrates, algae, and fishes were sampled to determine the effects of oiling and subsequent clean up efforts. The study encompassed all three major coastal regions impacted by the spill: Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet-Kenai Peninsula, and Kodiak-Alaska Peninsula. The experimental design allowed inductive statistical inferences of damage to the entire universe of oiled areas through random selection of matched pair sites (oil vs. control) within 4 habitat categories.


Proposal: View (18 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: View (1,981 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available

Datasets:
EVOSTC Data Archive: Population levels, numbers of species. Biomass and percent cover data of individual algal taxa. Population dynamic data of Fucus gardneri: abundance, reproductivity, and epiphytism. Raw data is managed in database developed in Paradox (DOS 4.5) 300 mega bytes of data. Availability: University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Juneau. NRDA Final Report No. 1A Coastal Habitat Injury Assessment 1994 IV volumes.