Shoreline oiling from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - PubMed

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Shoreline oiling from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Zachary Nixon et al. Mar Pollut Bull. 2016.

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Abstract

We build on previous work to construct a comprehensive database of shoreline oiling exposure from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) spill by compiling field and remotely-sensed datasets to support oil exposure and injury quantification. We compiled a spatial database of shoreline segments with attributes summarizing habitat, oiling category and timeline. We present new simplified oil exposure classes for both beaches and coastal wetland habitats derived from this database integrating both intensity and persistence of oiling on the shoreline over time. We document oiling along 2113km out of 9545km of surveyed shoreline, an increase of 19% from previously published estimates and representing the largest marine oil spill in history by length of shoreline oiled. These data may be used to generate maps and calculate summary statistics to assist in quantifying and understanding the scope, extent, and spatial distribution of shoreline oil exposure as a result of the DWH incident.

Keywords: Deepwater Horizon; Gulf of Mexico; MC-252; Oil spill; Oiling; Shoreline.

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