Floating oil-covered debris from Deepwater Horizon: Identification and application

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carmichael, Catherine A ^a   Arey, J Samuel ^b,c   Graham, William M ^d   Linn, Laura J ^d   Lemkau, Karin L ^a   Nelson, Robert K ^a   Reddy, Christopher M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; floating debris; Gulf of Mexico; Macondo well; oil spill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857951629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015301     Document Type: Article

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