CA-38
ID: CA-38
Region: Arctic
Case/Incident Name: Env Canada Experimental Oil Spill
Time: 1983-8
Location
Spill Location: Canada , NU , Cape Hatt, Baffin Island
Spill latitude N: 72.555651
Spill longitude E: -79.855091
Incident Character
Incident Description: Experiment
Incident Type: Experimental (E)
Oil Type: Crude oil
Volume Spilled (m3): 45.0
Oiled Shoreline (km):
Volume on shoreline (m3):
Owner:
Country of the owner:
Shorelines
Shoreline Substrates: Mixed sediment beach, Pebble/Cobble beach
Shore Treatment Methods: Natural recovery, Flooding, Mixing dry and wet, Controlled Burning, Dispersants, Solidifiers
Natural Attenuation Monitored:
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Citation
Owens, E.H., Humphrey, B., Robson, W. 1982. Results of beach studies and chemical analyses from the BIOS experimental site and from the “Metula” spill site. Proc. 11th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 171-183.
Owens, E.H., Robson, W., Foget, C.R., Harper, R.J. 1983. The BIOS shoreline experiments: results from 1980-1982 field studies. Proceedings of the Sixth AMOP Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, pp. 59-64, 1983.
Owens, E.H., Foget, C.R., Robson, W. 1982. Arctic shoreline countermeasures – initial results and implications from the BIOS experiment. Proceedings of the Fifth AMOP Technical Seminar, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, pp. 349-362, 1982.
Owens, E.H., Harper, R.J., Robson, W., Boehm, P.D. 1987. Fate and Persistence of Crude Oil Stranded on a Sheltered Beach. Arctic, 40, Supplement 1, 109-123. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64861.
Owens, E., Robson, W., Foget, C. 1987. A Field Evaluation of Selected Beach-Cleaning Techniques. Arctic, 40, Supplement 1: 244-257. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64872.
Owens, E., Sergy, G.A., Prince, R. 2002. The fate of stranded oil at the BIOS site twenty years after the experiment. Proc. 25th Environment Canada Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar (AMOP)Environment Canada, Ottawa ON, 1-11.
Owens, E.H., Humphrey, B., Sergy, G.A. (1987). The Migration of Stranded Oil from a Sheltered Beach into Adjacent Nearshore Subtidal Sediments. In Fate and Effects of Oil in Marine Ecosystems, ed. J. Kuiper and W.J. van den Brink, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers BV, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 231-241. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-3573-0_24
Prince, R.C., Owens, E.H., Sergy, G.A. 2002. Weathering of an Arctic oil spill over 20 years: the BIOS experiment revisited. Mar. Pollut. Bull., 44, 1236-1242. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X0200214X.
Owens, E.H., Foget, C.R., Robson, W. 1984. Experimental use of dispersants for spill countermeasures on arctic beaches. In Oil Spill Chemical Dispersants: Research, Experience and Recommendations STP 840, ed. Thomas E. Allan. Amer. Soc. for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 324-337.
Owens, E.H. and Robson, W. 1987. Experimental design and the retention of oil on Arctic test beaches. Arctic 40, Supplement 1: 230-243. https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64871
Humphrey, B., Owens, E.H., and Sergy G. 1991. Long-term results from the BIOS shoreline experiment – Surface oil cover. Proc. International Oil Spill Conference, Pub. No. 4529, Amer. Petr. Inst., Washington D.C., 447-452. https://meridian.allenpress.com/iosc/article/1991/1/447/199652/Long-Term-Results-from-the-BIOS-Shoreline
Humphrey, B., Owens, E.H., and Sergy, G.A. 1992. The fate and persistence of stranded oil: a nine-year overview from the BIOS project, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Report EPS 3/SP/4, 43 pp. http://publications.gc.ca/site/fra/9.869544/publication.html
Owens, E.H., Humphrey, B., and Sergy, G.A., 1994. Natural cleaning of oil on two coarse-sediment shorelines on the Arctic and Atlantic coasts of Canada. Spill Science and Technology Bulletin, 1 (1), 37-52. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/135325619490006X