Project Information

Title: Hydrocarbon Data Analysis, Interpretation and Database Maintenance for Restoration and NRDA Environmental Samples Associated with EVOS 94290

Project Year and Number: 1994: 94290

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100290, 2009: 090290, 2008: 080290, 2007: 070290, 2004: 040290, 2003: 030290, 2002: 02290, 2001: 01290, 2000: 00290, 1999: 99290, 1998: 98290, 1997: 97290, 1996: 96290, 1995: 95290, 1993: 93053, 1992: TS01, 1991: TS01, 1990: TS01, 1989: TS01

Principal Investigator (PI): Sid Korn (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: Bonita Nelson, Jeep Rice, Jeff Short

Research Location: All Spill Affected Areas

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract: The general purpose of this project is to provide user friendly interpretive services to make the existing Exxon Valdez Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) database available to principal investigators, resource managers, and the public following the 1989 EVOS. The database presently contains information from thousands of samples, including sample collection information, hydrocarbon analyses information, bile and HPLC analyses, and data in support of the NRDA and restoration projects. This project will provide for the continued use and access of NRDA hydrocarbon data, expansion of the hydrocarbon database, interpretation of the hydrocarbon analyses, and continued quality control of sample storage and hydrocarbon analyses. New data will be integrated into the Exxon Valdez NRDA hydrocarbon database, ensuring that hydrocarbon data resulting from EVOS restoration efforts are directly comparable with the existing data. Procedures developed during the NRDA effort will be followed. Incoming samples will be inventoried and collection information entered into the Exxon Valdez NRDA database located at the Auke Bay Laboratory in Juneau, AK. Hydrocarbon data will be evaluated using methods specifically developed for the Exxon Valdez NRDA hydrocarbon data.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Final Report: Not Applicable to this Project

Publications from this Project: None Available

Datasets:
EVOSTC Data Archive: Final database of thousands of samples analyzed for hydrocarbons, including sample collection information, hydrocarbon analyses and numerical correlations directly related to oil. In FY94, 2742 samples were received and several hundred were submitted for analysis. dbf Availability: This database is accessible through Auke Bay Lab (907) 789-6000 and will be included on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Information Management CD-ROM available fall 1996.