Project Information

Title: Evaluation of Oil Remaining in the Intertidal from EVOS 01543

Project Year and Number: 2001: 01543

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2002: 02543

Principal Investigator (PI): Jeff Short (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: Pat Harris, Mandy Lindeberg, Jacek Maselko, Jerome Pella, Jeep Rice

Research Location: Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Intertidal Organisms, Sediments

Abstract: This project will assess the amount of oil remaining from the oil spill on shorelines within Prince William Sound. FY 01 funding will be requested in two phases. Phase 1 (Oct.-Nov.) produced a sampling design. Phase 2 (Dec.-Sept.) will intensively sample a stratified random sample of shoreline for surface and subsurface oil to estimate length of oiled shoreline, area and volume of oiled sediment, and volume of oil. Approximately 8 kilometers will be sampled by digging more than 8,000 pits to discover and quantify subsurface oil.


Proposal: View (320 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: See Project 02543

Publications from this Project: None Available